Loyalty—a virtue elementary schoolers can explain clearly—has long seemed to confuse the United States government. Some administrations have equated it...

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Some of Donald Trump’s favorite world leaders have been scoundrels, bullies, and dictators. He keeps a picture of himself with...

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Yesterday in California, the physical world and the world of free-floating grievance and ideological bluster met once again, when two...

Last month, the Supreme Court set fire to the remnants of the Voting Rights Act, the law that made America...

Quite abruptly, the world has jolted into another infectious-disease crisis. On Friday, Africa CDC confirmed a new Ebola outbreak, centered...

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A pair of Air Force refueling planes were flying high over Iraq two weeks into the U.S. and Israeli war...

The Purged Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who...