IF ONE RATES the Russia scandal on an impeachability scale of one to ten, with ten being a videotape of Donald Trump speaking in Russian to his handlers from the Kremlin, like Kevin Costner in the last scene in No Way Out, we’re currently at about 7.5. So far, the following events have been credibly reported: No fewer than five Trump associates (Carter Page, Paul Manafort, Jeff Sessions, Michael Flynn, and Jared Kushner) have obscured or outright lied about their financial ties to or meetings with Russian officials. Kushner asked a Russian official during the presidential transition to communicate via a secret communications line. Trump himself appointed a campaign manager who had previously run overseas campaign operations on behalf of Moscow; appeared on-camera during the campaign asking Russia to hack his opponent’s emails, then subsequently denied Russian involvement despite American intelligence concluding the opposite; instructed intelligence officials to try to quash the FBI’s investigation of the Russia scandal, made this request of the FBI director personally while dangling his job, told that director he expected loyalty, fired him when he failed to shut down the inquiry, and privately urged one of his former aides facing investigation to “stay strong”; and then told Russian officials in private and Lester Holt on television that he fired the FBI director in order to stop the Russia investigation. Making all the preceding even more suspicious, Trump has revealed sensitive classified information to Russian diplomats and refused to affirm his country’s commitment to the principle of defending fellow NATO members from attack.
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Enchanting and Exhausting
Wicked makes a charming but bloated film.
Nicole Kidman Lets Loose
She's having a grand old time playing wealthy matriarchs on the verge of blowing their lives up.
How Mike Myers Makes His Own Reality
Directing him in Austin Powers taught me what it means to be really, truly funny.
The Art of Surrender
Four decades into his career, Willem Dafoe is more curious about his craft than ever.
The Big Macher Restaurant Is Back
ON A WARM NIGHT in October, a red carpet ran down a length of East 26th Street.
Showing Its Age
Borgo displays a confidence that can he only from experience.
Keeping It Simple on Lower Fifth
Jack Ceglic and Manuel Fernandez-Casteleiro's apartment is full of stories but not distractions.
REASON TO LOVE NEW YORK
THERE'S NOT MUCH in New York that has staying power. Every other day, a new scandal outscandals whatever we were just scandalized by; every few years, a hotter, scarier downtown set emerges; the yoga studio up the block from your apartment that used to be a coffee shop has now become a hybrid drug front and yarn store.
Disunion: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
A Rift in the Family My in-laws gave me a book by a eugenicist. Our relationship is over.
Gwen Whiting
Two years after a mass recall and a bacterial outbreak, the founder of the Laundress is on cleanup duty.
