A look at Flynn as he rides into sunset

The New Yorker may have landed the last substantive interview — at least for a while — with Michael Flynn, the retired general who resigned as national security adviser to President Trump last week. In a series of interviews as recent as mid-February, Flynn spoke with Nicholas Schmidle to defend his foreign policy ideas, to dish on his former boss — President Obama — and offer a glimpse into the Trump ad- ministration’s thinking.

Schmidle concludes in the Feb. 27 issue that Flynn shares much in common with Trump.

“Like Trump, Flynn stewed over what was said and written about him,” Schmidle writes. But unlike Trump, he was accustomed to following orders, having spent his career in the military.

It is unlikely that he “went rogue” in talking to Russian officials, Schmidle’s sources tell him. “I think somebody said, ‘Mike you’ve got some contacts. Let them know it’s gonna be all right.’ Mike’s a soldier.”

Speaking of soldiers and going rogue, New York profiles Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and poses the question: “How far will he go?”

McCain has become an outspoken critic of the Trump administration and Gabriel Sherman suggests that the senator “could shake the foundations” of the White House by continuing to agitate for a probe into the president’s ties to Russia.

But the senator is conflicted about the battles he’s picking. “I can’t be the car alarm that always goes off. If I am, I’m not effective,” McCain is quoted as telling his former presidential-campaign strategist, John Weaver.

McCain said he’ll pick his spots when Trump’s poll numbers continue to decline.