If the Senate confirms one of its own, Alabama’s Jeff Sessions, as the new attorney general, which appears likely, one of his first orders of business should be dealing ...
If you’re one of the thousands of people enthralled with Pittsburgh’s two pairs of nesting bald eagles, then 2017 is already shaping up to be a great year.
The Audubon ...
Despite sloppy reporting that repeatedly said otherwise, often accompanied by Page 1 headlines, Donald Trump never called for Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s e-mails. H...
For many people, 2016 was the real-world manifestation of Judith Viorst’s iconic 1972 children’s book “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.”
If y...
Two decades ago, I wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs that described an unusual and worrying trend — the rise of illiberal democracy. Around the world, dictators were bei...
“Optimism, n. — The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything is good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong...
One insistent question that will shape 2017 is whether we’re witnessing the gradual decay of the post-World War II international order, dominated by the economic and mil...
It was an alarming development that the Washington Post broke over the weekend. The story would have been compelling even without some embellishment, which there unfortu...
Viewing 2016 in retrospect — doing so is unpleasant, but less so than was living through it — the year resembles a china shop after a visit from an especially maladroit ...
We’ve come a long way from Daniel Patrick Moynihan excoriating the U.N.’s 1975 “Zionism is racism” resolution in one of the finer exhibits of righteous indignation in th...
