If political leaders continue redirecting public anger toward vulnerable people, the country risks sliding further toward a ...

Since 2016, Democrats have increasingly asked voters to rally not around a compelling vision of America’s future, but around fear of what happens if Donald Trump returns. Every election is cast as the ...

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Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable discusses the first hundred days of President Trump’s second ...

A week before Charlie Kirk’s murder, some friends and I were trying to identify the seminal events that have shaped this American century. We all lead happy lives, but the incidents we listed told a ...

Now that Zohran Mamdani is the mayor-elect of New York City, expect the slings and arrows at him to intensify. He has been called everything but a child of God, and he gleefully claims himself as a ...

A college professor, my father used to assign his students the book The Lord of the Flies. That 1954 novel by William Golding imagines the plight of a group of British schoolboys whose plane crashes ...

Performative cruelty is an ancient practice, even though the phrase itself is new. Gladiatorial fights (Ancient Rome, c. 264 BCE–5th century CE) in arenas like the Colosseum were intentionally staged ...

Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor and the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, told her former colleagues in an email that her sudden firing should “fuel the fire” of their work fighting ...