President Trump took over the United Nations Correspondent Association’s room to sign a new agreement with Denmark and Greenland. Then, the UN press corp noticed. “Ma’am, where are you going?” The Secret Service agent who dared to stop Edith Lederer in the third-floor press corridor had no idea he was standing in front of a…
The United Nations is strangely quiet in August. I can walk through the Secretariat Building’s winding corridors without dodging delegations, journalists hauling heavy cameras, or civil society representatives searching for conference rooms. I can cross First Avenue to go to work without the NYPD surveying the scene. And I can grab a coffee a few…
From Khrushchev’s shoe to Arafat’s gun, some of the UN’s most memorable moments remain suspended between history, exaggeration and folklore. But how much of that history is true? What do we remember from more than 80 years of UN General Assembly gatherings? If we’re New Yorkers, it may be the gridlock spreading across Midtown Manhattan…
This year, three candidates are backed by countries that are not their own, raising a question at the heart of the UN race: can an “orphan” candidate lead the world? It plays like a deleted scene from The Terminal. You know the one: Tom Hanks, as Viktor Navorski, stands in an airport lounge, staring at…
