Will: Trump is an almost inexpressibly sad specimen
Half or a quarter of the way through this interesting experiment with an incessantly splenetic presidency, much of the nation has become accustomed to daily mortifications. Or has lost its...
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Will: Germany’s largest opposition party is a Rorschach test for the nation’s politics
Armin-Paulus Hampel, a former journalist and commentator who now is a member of the Bundestag, is ebullient, affable, opinionated, voluble and excellent company at lunch. But because his party is...
George Will: In Illinois, a sign of intelligent life in the Democratic Party
If Republicans have a lick of sense, they are alarmed by a recent sign of intelligent life in the other party.
Will: A declared presidential candidate who believes in what he has lived
The world's oldest political party has developed an aversion to discretion. The Democratic Party is manacled to an over-caffeinated base that believes that deft government can deliver parity of status...
Will: Political antibodies are strengthening the nation’s immune system
America's body politic has recently been scarred by excruciating political shingles, and 2018 campaigning was equivalent to acid reflux. But Tuesday's elections indicated that some political antibodies are strengthening the...
Will: Madness of college basketball goes well beyond March
If you graft a multibillion dollar entertainment industry onto academic institutions, the discordance will leave the latter soiled and the former indulging in shady practices that serve the pretense that...
Column: Arizona voters can save their judiciary from its spiral into politics
This year's election that most implicates fundamental issues of American governance will not fill a legislative or executive office. And its importance is not primarily that it will either repudiate...
Will: Dying of despair — How to heal our epidemic of loneliness?
If Sen. Ben Sasse is right -- he has not recently been wrong about anything important -- the nation's most-discussed political problem is entangled with the least-understood public health problem....
Will: America should do away with the death penalty
Without being aware of it, Vernon Madison might become a footnote in constitutional law because he is barely aware of anything. For more than 30 years, Alabama, with a tenacity...
Column: Shaming and judgmental culture drives fear-based parenting
Police came to Kim Brooks' parents' door in suburban Richmond, Virginia, demanding that her mother say where her daughter was or be arrested for obstructing justice. So began a Kafkaesque...