Big Deals

Clinton Foundation Splits Harlem for Wall Street

When Bill Clinton arrived in Harlem on a sweltering summer day in 2001, Governor George Pataki proclaimed it “William Jefferson Clinton Day” in New York. Thousands of people flooded Adam Clayton Powell Jr. plaza and serenaded him with saxophones while the ex-president beamed like he’d invented jazz.

It’s therefore impossible to overstate the news that Read More

Where Did the Scandal Go?

"Anti-climactic…" sighed my colleague Jason Horowitz when he described the Clinton Foundation donor list released on Wednesday morning. Surely that was an apt description of a document so widely predicted to contain scandalous dynamite, which turned out to have all the explosive force of a slowly deflating balloon. "So much of this has already been Read More