A retreat from the Enlightenment and back into tribalism
The diagnosis is easy. America has divided into two hostile tribes, each willing to believe the most outlandish lies about the other, each keener on hunting heretics…
The diagnosis is easy. America has divided into two hostile tribes, each willing to believe the most outlandish lies about the other, each keener on hunting heretics…
President Joe Biden wants to fight the midterm elections on preserving widespread legal abortion following the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade. But his base may…
McGruff isn’t the only dog taking a bite out of crime. Turns out the more dogs a neighborhood has, the lower the rates of homicide, robbery, and…
Running for president in 1964, Barry Goldwater unveiled a slogan designed to neutralize media accusations of “extremism.” The campaign’s handiwork, “In your heart, you know he’s right,”…
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said American life is lacking in second acts, but Adam Wade may have single-handedly disproven the great wordsmith. Wade, who died on July…
Among the surest signs of a society in deep crisis are persistent blackouts, the inability of a government to supply its citizens with power adequately and consistently.…
The Biden administration sought to clarify the federal government’s authority to reinforce a law mandating that healthcare providers must perform life- or health-saving abortion services in emergency…
Brittney Griner, a 6-foot-9 basketball center who is arguably the greatest tall player in WNBA history, saw her life changed forever when she was arrested in February…
In 1951, the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce was grilling a procession of gangsters. On Jan. 25, 1951, the committee was in…
The slow drip of revelations about the Russiagate scandal has diminished the significance of the most important truth about it: that it was a Hillary Clinton campaign…