For 30 years, law-enforcement officers have been empowered to be “clever”—and that cleverness has today become the cover for abusive...

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During Sunday night’s Golden Globes, the host Nikki Glaser expertly ribbed the nominees in her opening monologue. Beaming presenters read...

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Scott Wiener has an unusual distinction in American politics: He upsets almost everybody. In the months before I met the...

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Forty-seven years ago, Iran had a revolution that replaced a U.S.-allied monarchy with an anti-American theocracy. Today, the Islamic Republic...

So, about all that Venezuelan oil. Although President Trump has declared that America’s oil companies will soon “go in” to...