Jelani Cobb has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2012, and became a staff writer in 2015. He writes frequently about race, politics, history, and culture. His most recent book is “The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress.” He’s a professor of journalism at Columbia University. He won the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, for his columns on race, the police, and injustice.
Watch: Jelani Cobb discusses the circumstances of Michael Brown’s death and the events in Ferguson, Missouri on “Charlie Rose.”
The President’s conflict with Sessions suggests that he does not have a zero-tolerance policy for ethical violations; rather, he has a zero-tolerance policy for ethics.
His blithe excuse—that nothing about his dirt-gathering meeting with a Russian lawyer matters because it turned out that there was no dirt—is only more damning.
