Only at the precipice do we evolve.” Those words, spoken by Professor Barnhardt in The Day the Earth Stood Still, capture one ...

'For there to be a hostile occupation, territory of a nation or state must actually be placed under the authority of a ...

I had just filed this piece on Ann Widdecombe when my editor told me it was believed she had been murdered. It was shattering ...

In Trump's alternate reality, the greatest American soccer story of this summer never happens, writes the editorial board.

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Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

Does anywhere in the country better represent this era of the American experiment than a self-governing tech-company town ...

As of this week, House Speaker Mike Johnson is pursuing a new path: a third budget reconciliation bill — dubbed ...

In the long-awaited birthright citizenship decision, the majority ruled that anyone born in the United States is a citizen, even if his parents are here temporarily or illegally. If sovereign law ...

Under pressure from the Trump administration, Laos began accepting a limited number of American deportees in June 2025, ...

On June 25, 2026, barely a day after Passport Seva Divas, and almost ironically so, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) dropped a bureaucratic anvil on the I ...

In the name of basic decency, we surely can be expected to protect our children. • John Murphy is a judge of the High Court, ...