If Ukraine falls, it will be hard to spin as anything but a debacle for the United States, and for its president.

I fear I’m on the road to serious isolation. Editor’s Note: Is anything ailing, torturing, or nagging at you? Are you beset ...

In its new incarnation, the far right began to resemble the old far left. In some places, the two began to merge. Both of ...

A national monument gets squeezed and stretched and squeezed again.

It took my father nearly 70 years to become a social butterfly. After decades of tinkering with Photoshop on a decrepit ...

A politically powerful opponent of birthright citizenship railed that the United States cannot “give up the right” to “expel” ...

Adaptations of Holmes stories are exploding now that the detective is in the public domain. Critics believe it should have ...

It’s not a magic wand to save America—but neither is it entirely useless.

China grandstands about Gaza while repressing a Muslim community within its own borders. Hardly anyone seems to notice.

In the past few weeks, I have heard that sentiment or similar from economists, traders, Hill staffers, and government ...

But even flatly untrue attacks on the health plan went unanswered--direct-mail campaigns saying that everyone would have to go to a government clinic, daily doses of misinformation from Rush Limbaugh, ...

Back in November, the actor Sebastian Stan said he was unable to take part in Variety ’s Actors on Actors series because he’d ...