In the United States, Christmas is the last official holiday of the calendar-year, and Thanksgiving is the penultimate holiday. New Year’s D...

Politics and religion intermeshed can be a nasty business. Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, witnessed every venue of his planned tou...

President Barak Obama of the U.S., and Herman Van Rompuy and José Barroso of the E.U. held a news conference following the EU-US Summit at ...

On December 31, 2010, a Russian judge sentenced Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian tycoon who had been imprisoned in 2003 after defying Vla...

When I was a post-doctoral student, I sat in on a course on German films during World War II. The instructor was an 80 year-old German ...

In December 2009, Abdullah II, King of Jordon, dismissed the prime minister and replaced him with a palace aide and loyalist, dissolved Par...

According to a piece in the National Review, “George Washington might have had the right idea. Second inaugural addresses should be short a...

The 2012 U.S. presidential election was the first in which neither of the major-party candidates participated in the campaign-matching s...

At the conclusion of the 2012 Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Russia, the host president, Vladimir Putin, likened the birds t...

By the time Lincoln was back on the train returning to Washington, he was down with a high fever from Small Pox. I’m thinking the illness...

The publication of portions of the Pentagon Papers despite President Nixon’s threats of treason highlighted the fact that four presidents s...

By the early 1990’s, the U.S. had banned drilling off the Atlantic coast. In the wake of BP’s deep-water-drilling disaster in the Gulf of ...

How should an aspiring candidate for President of the United States go about attaining that esteemed office?—an office whose occupant was...

Barak Obama had a tendency to modify his manner of speaking, and even his dialect, to fit with his audience. Listening to his speech to the...

In the wake of the failure of the joint congressional committee that was tasked with coming up with a proposal to reduce federal deficits o...

Appealing for unity after the controversial ratification of a draft constitution in December 2012, President Morsi of Egypt pledged in a ...

Fundamentally, a court differs from a legislature, so it would be strange were a state’s supreme court to take it upon itself to act as the...

Benoit Hamon, “riding to victory” from political obscurity on a proposal to “pay all adults a monthly basic income,” defeated the recent Pr...

Even though Adama Barrow defeated the longtime president of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, in the state’s presidential election in December, 2016, B...

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both strongly believed that the continued viability of a republic depends on an educated and virtuous citiz...