Literature is full of reminders that long odds can sometimes be surmounted.

America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.

A s he sat in prison in 1930, at the opening of a fateful decade, the Italian anti-fascist Antonio Gramsci wrote: “The crisis ...

The coalition collapse that doomed Biden follows a grim precedent set by another Democratic leader: Jimmy Carter.

Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which ...

Of course, we’ll never know for sure, but the evidence (including polling) suggests that he would have been crushed by an ...

Lying is a prerequisite for securing a Trump appointment.

He doesn’t believe anything. That’s why he wins. L ast week, President-Elect Donald Trump nominated Morgan Ortagus, a ...

The government is changing what foods can be branded as “healthy.” It expects basically no one to listen.

The social network has given up on fact-checking. That’s a good thing.

The Palisades Fire is destroying places that I’ve loved. We knew to expect winds. When they came on Tuesday morning, sounding ...

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