Spat With Turkey Appears to Boost Dutch Prime Minister on Eve of Election
Polls suggest that Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte could be returned to office, boosted by a wave of approval for his feud with Turkey's president.
Robert Mackey
Robert Mackey wrote about national and international news through the prism of social media for The Intercept. Before joining as a Senior Writer, he was a reporter and columnist for the New York Times, where he anchored the newspaper’s breaking news blog, The Lede, for five years, and wrote a news analysis column, Open Source, from 2014 to 2016. His work is focused on making sense of events through the close reading of firsthand accounts, photographs, and video posted on social networks by witnesses and participants.
His writing has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Slate, and The Guardian.
As a television producer, he has looked at the role played by soccer hooligans in the war between Serbia and Croatia for Britain’s Channel 4, and spent a year and a half making a series of video letters from refugees for a United Nations-sponsored program broadcast in Sarajevo, Zagreb, and Belgrade during the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
His writing has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Slate, and The Guardian.
As a television producer, he has looked at the role played by soccer hooligans in the war between Serbia and Croatia for Britain’s Channel 4, and spent a year and a half making a series of video letters from refugees for a United Nations-sponsored program broadcast in Sarajevo, Zagreb, and Belgrade during the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
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Women’s Strike Organizers Arrested in New York on a Day of Protests Worldwide
Three leaders of the Women’s March movement were arrested outside a Trump hotel in New York as they took part in the global “Day Without Women” strike.
Updated: Trump Suggests Anti-Semitic Acts Might Be Faked to Make His Movement "Look Bad"
Attacks on Jewish cemeteries and threats against Jewish community centers might not be anti-Semitic acts but "the reverse," Donald Trump hinted darkly.
Fox News Interview With Fake Expert on Sweden Further Baffles Swedes
A “Swedish Defense and National Security Advisor” interviewed by Bill O’Reilly of Fox News this week turns out to be entirely unknown in his native country.
Mayor of Paris Trolls Donald Trump and His Friend Jim
Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, poked fun at Donald Trump on Friday, after the American president bizarrely claimed that "Paris is no longer Paris."
Tom Cotton Endorses the Myth Protesters Are Paid, While Seeming to Dismiss It
"I don't really care if anybody here is paid or not," Tom Cotton said, embracing a myth. "You're all Arkansans and I'm glad to hear from you."
"Donald Trump Rants and Raves at the Press," Donald Trump Says, Accurately
Donald Trump's bizarre attempt to roast the press shows that he intends to follow Steve Bannon's advice and treat the media as "the opposition party."
What Did @realDonaldTrump Know About Russia and When Did Donald Trump Know It?
Updated, 5:40 p.m. Donald Trump dodged a question about contacts between his ousted national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and Russia, but one of his own tweets hints at an answer.
Foreign Spies Must Be Bored by How Easy Trump Makes Their Jobs
Members of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club were treated to impromptu dinner theater as the new president handled a crisis in full view of fellow diners.
Amid the Chaos in Berkeley, a Grinning Face, Covered in Blood
As fans of the right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos were injured this week in Berkeley, one victim seemed to be enjoying himself immensely.