Allen Abel

Allen Abel has been writing for a living since the age of Linotype machines and molten lead. Now he has a 11-year-old daughter with her own iPhone.

The U.S. president says he wants to ’make the UN great.’ The Honourary Consul from Senegal says: ’I just hope he doesn’t offend anybody.’

Tight-lipped park rangers, big black Chevys and a Korean war vet next door. What happens at the presidential retreat when Trump’s around?

With yet another national crisis looming, the president theatrically embraced his Democratic rivals and made livid his own party’s leaders

Allen Abel travels to Sumter, S.C., a place of history and infamy, for the eclipse. ’Praise Jesus,’ some bellowed at totality, and a father cried.

America’s three million immigrant and ethnic Russians are hearing it all, all over again, fearing discrimination and another Cold War

At a Congressional hearing room on Wednesday Donald Trump’s pick to head the FBI repeatedly pledged his loyalty to the U.S. constitution

On Parliament Hill tens of thousands of soggy revelers gathered to celebrate the most admired nation on Earth

Allen Abel spent weeks criss-crossing the land—meeting hunters, nuns and one John A MacDonald—to find the true meaning of this vast country

Jeh Johnson testifies in Washington on why his warnings about Russia were either ignored or landed with a thud

Forty-three years after Nixon resigned, Allen Abel goes to Capitol Hill to ask lawmakers: ’Are we there yet?’