The nation now needs an example of how to calmly assess episodes fraught with passion and sorrow. An example arrives Sunday night with Ken Burns' "The Vietnam War."
Summer brings no respite for academics committed to campus purifications, particularly at the institution that is the leader in the silliness sweepstakes, Yale. Its Committee on Art in Public Spaces...
When John Adams wrote into Massachusetts' Constitution a commitment to a "government of laws and not of men," he could not have imagined the modern proliferation and complexity of laws,...
Southern Gothic is a literary genre and, occasionally, a political style that, like the genre, blends strangeness and irony. Consider the Republican race to replace Sen. Jeff Sessions.
Fastidious people who worry that the president's West Virginia and Ohio performances -- the alpha male as crybaby -- diminished the presidency are missing the point, which is: For now,...
Tuesday afternoon, the irascible John McCain made a plea in the Senate for that body to return to "regular order." This was a response to the institutional slovenliness that exasperated...
America's security challenges change much faster -- think of the Soviet Union's demise and the Islamic State's rise -- than new technologies can be conceived, designed, approved, built and deployed.
No Democrat, says Sen. Ron Wyden, likes the status quo. When he recently described the tax code as "a rotting economic carcass," his wife asked him to stop scaring the...
The success sequence, which a decreasing number of young Americans follow, is this: First get at least a high school diploma, then get a job, then get married, and only...