Donald Trump began his Presidential bid, in 2015, with an infamous speech, at Trump Tower, in which he said, of Mexican immigrants, “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” But it was not until a former aide to Jeff Sessions joined Trump’s campaign that his rhetoric coalesced into policy. How did one adviser come to have such a disproportionate influence on the Administration’s platform? Jonathan Blitzer reports on the rise of Stephen Miller. Plus, Simon Parkin joins a group of foreign-policy experts who play war games to help them predict and contain geopolitical conflicts. And Michael Schulman sits down with Pam Grier, the first action heroine of blaxploitation cinema, to talk about her singular career in Hollywood.
Stephen Miller, the Architect of Trump’s Immigration Plan
Jonathan Blitzer examines how one adviser turned Trump’s xenophobic rhetoric into a set of hard-line policies.
Rolling the Dice in a Battle with Russia
War-gaming is an old and low-tech tool, but officers and diplomats still turn to it to model today’s most complex geopolitical situations.
Pam Grier, from Blaxploitation to Black Excellence
Outrageous, raunchy, and empowered, the star of “Foxy Brown” helped change the way black lives were presented onscreen.
