The so-called looksmaxxing movement is narcissistic, cruel, racist, shot through with social Darwinism, and proudly anti-compassion. As the name suggests,...

Among those who defend the behavior of ICE in the shooting of Renee Nicole Good, one argument goes like this:...

European leaders are in a dither, understandably but inexcusably, about Donald Trump’s threats to take Greenland by force, and to...

The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy made it official: The American-dominated liberal world order is over. This is not because...

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was already irritated by what he describes as “unnecessarily contentious” questions from the team vetting him...

The reference points were readily identifiable: a chance meeting between characters from different worlds, a sport involving sticks and a...

I am here in the evening light, my eyes now white like the museum sparrow, with a voice that no...

History might not repeat itself, but the slogans sometimes do. And in the days since an ICE officer shot and...

Milk is mundane in most contexts, but you can’t help noticing when it is smeared across the upper lips of...

Of the many recent targets of the Trump administration’s ire—Jerome Powell, Denmark, Minneapolis—legal immigration may have been the least conspicuous...

“Why does he look so angry?” one visitor to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., asked our guide, as...

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When he was a kid, Harry Reid seldom left the small town of Searchlight, Nevada, without his parents. But the...

Imagine you’re the president of a midsize country, and you’re offered a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council....

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