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When Democrats say they need a generational change in their party’s leadership, they usually aren’t referring to former President Barack Obama. Although the 63-year-old has been out…
An old adage suggests, “There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.” That is unless you are a liberal white woman on the…
More than any president in memory, Donald Trump is attuned to aesthetics. This should scarcely come as a surprise, given that Trump is our first builder-turned-president. In…
Police, firefighters, paramedics, and others who put their lives on the line to serve the public are themselves facing a crisis. Studies show they’re stressed out, short-staffed,…
The late Elie Wiesel, the famed essayist and survivor of Adolf Hitler’s camps, once described the Holocaust as “an indictment of our present world.” Eight decades later,…
I am a writer in Los Angeles, which is just a sidelong way of saying I still have roommates as I approach 30. I’m lucky in that…
In his famed 16th-century tract The Prince, the Florentine diplomat and author Niccolò Machiavelli warned that mercenaries are “dangerous,” for they are “disunited, ambitious and without discipline,…
An enduringly controversial play in Pete Rose’s long, Hall of Fame-caliber Major League Baseball career had a certain Donald Trump quality to it. It’s a baseball-political link…
The exhibition “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” will run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 11. After a long day of hiking, you’ve…
The first city was founded by the first murderer in the biblical story, which tells us something deep about urban dwellings. Jam a crowd of people inside…
