Nancy Pelosi Is America’s Most Powerful Power-Suit Boss

Donald Trump blinked. He wanted to keep the government closed, the workers furloughed, and hell raised until he got what he wanted down at the Southern border. But he blinked. Or maybe he did the kind of half-blink—one eye shut, the other all agog—that makes everyone wonder, “Everything O.K. with this guy?” That is, he agreed to open the government again for just three weeks.

The credit will go to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and her you-can’t-out-politick-the-politicker grit. When women are flexing their power, it’s said that one mustn’t notice what the powerful women are wearing. But there is something reassuring about Pelosi’s style on the Hill—D.C. is usually a wasteland of sensible flats and quiet suiting that whispers deals, baby, deals. In politics, as in style, she has never been afraid to stand out. So here, a tribute to the other power-suit queen.