Matthew Stevenson

During one of my days in Nicosia, I decided to travel north to the coastal town of Girne, which before the division was known as Kyrenia. On my map it was

From the old fortress in Girne (in Turkish Cyprus) looking up at the Kyrenia Mountains, in which the author Lawrence Durrell lived in the 1950s, as he describes in his memoir Bitter Lemons of Cyprus.

The Nicosia cathedral of Saint Sophia that was converted to a mosque when the Ottomans came to Cyprus in 1570-71. Photo: Matthew Stevenson.

Chances are if you are an American heading to Europe, your plans might well include a stop in either London or Paris, if not a journey between Great

Was there ever a better time to be the only Washington insider? Free money (in case you are in need of a bomb shelter or a triumphal arch), free women (apparently for $45,000 a year Natalie will run after your golf cart), free crime (all those Get Out of Jail Cards handed down from the Supremely Corrupt Court), and free wars (“Sure, put Iran on Pete’s tab…”).

For the moment, Trump has turned the United States into a rogue nation: detested by its friends, suspected by its enemies, and bankrupt to the rest. He has appointed generals and defense under-secretaries based on how they look on Fox, and he has turned the American economy into a pyramid scheme, not unlike one of his Atlantic City casinos—with budget deficits, a diminished dollar, and the overdrawn national debt. Abroad, Trump has burned the country’s bridges with Canada and the European Union—a combined market of about 490 million persons, some of whom used to admire America’s Jeffersonian principles.

According to Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren and his band of merry commissioners, the rifle that was used to assassinate President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, on November 22, 1963, was a 6.5×52mm Italian Mannlicher-Carcano M91/38 bolt-action short rifle. It was made in Italy in 1940 and, after World War II, held as military surplus in Italy and the United States until A.J. Hidell (a Lee Harvey Oswald pseudonym) purchased it by mail from a Chicago sporting goods company

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Washington D.C. has never been one of my cities. I am drawn more to New York, where I was born, but I do take pleasure in visiting Washington, at least

As best I can tell, Vladimir Putin is playing a dead man’s hand with his endless rounds of Go Fish in Ukraine with Trump lackeys Steve Witkoff and Jared