Allison Rayburn, a program coordinator for the Oregon Department of Forestry, told me that in the eastern part of the state, “you can barely see the sun” through the smoke: “It’s just devastation, and ...

Many Americans are waiting for their kid to be “ready” to use the toilet—and waiting, and waiting, and waiting.

H ere it is, August on Martha’s Vineyard, and Alan Dershowitz has barely been heard from. Well, that’s not exactly true. He has been heard from on many topics—because Dersho ...

Crime shows begin with violated women all the time—the naked, bloodied female corpse is such a staple in the genre’s visual language that viewers hardly notice it. Why is a scene of a young woman ...

If anyone were to be immune to America’s loneliness epidemic, it would be college students. For years, Americans have been ...

Some are now suggesting that Arday was the victim, and the people who drew attention to his lies, the villains.

I can’t think of one without the other, because September 11 not only transformed how the United States interacted with Muslims abroad and at home; it also changed our collective view of American ...

Donald Trump has bent many democratic traditions, but this one, he’s discarded altogether. Trump has been putting his name on buildings since before most Americans were born. He built his political ...

As the war with Iran drags on, the president is in disagreement with the vice president, military leaders, and long-standing American allies.

W estern military planners do not seem eager to talk about their nightmare scenario, much less prepare for it. But they tend ...

Flailing regimes dehumanize minorities to distract from their failures. When the economy collapses or a war goes badly, they ...

The claim that the president could not possibly do something unethical marks a new frontier of impunity by the administration.