Republicans may not have a functioning legislative majority by the time those fights begin. The GOP won 220 seats in November ...

The view from the middle—where it is not as comfortable, both materially and spiritually, as it was a generation ago ...

Michel Houellebecq is a writer of the after—after history, after God, after politics, after romance, and after happiness. He chronicles a world in which we watch ourselves live, poisoned by irony, ...

Almost no one outside of Georgia knew who he was, but he saw his opportunity. Editor’s note: Before he died on November 29, ...

Jimmy Carter, America’s oldest ex-president, has died at 100. Carter was known around the world not just for his one term as president, but for his four decades as a globe-trotting ex-president. His ...

Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. Previously he was executive director and senior lecturer at the Georgetown Center for the ...

During the Covid-ridden summer of 2020, amid widespread vandalization of public monuments triggered by George Floyd’s killing, President Donald Trump issued an executive order for the creation of a ...

The United States electoral map now looks significantly different than it did prior to Donald Trump’s arrival on the political scene. The president-elect’s anti-establishment, Main Street–focused ...

On my first morning in Tokyo, a barista in a café near Ueno Station served my coffee with a big smile and two short bows. The cashier was just as kind and patient, though I do not speak Japanese.

Director, Crime and Justice Policy Lab and Jerry Lee Professor of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania [email protected] ...