Earlier this year, the government of Iraq, in a misconceived act of outreach to the country's once dominant Sunni community, began restoring a dilapidated monument in Baghdad. Originally constructed ...

A few days after the election in November 2016 I had several conversations with friends who were anxious, angry, and depressed. One said that she woke up on Wednesday after the election and no longer ...

When we follow world news – the invasion of Ukraine, the protests in Iran, the recent party election congress in China, the US Republican right’s denial of President Biden’s 2020 election victory and ...

Again, to quote Senator Tim Kaine’s recent statement on the source of human rights: “The notion that rights don't come from laws, and don't come from the government, but come from the Creator...That's ...

The Totalitarian Seed in Identity Politics of Race and Gender If this seems far away from our own times, there are, in fact, petty totalitarians in our midst, whose political power, if they were to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Donald Trump Win McNamee/Getty Images We’ve seen a spike over the last few years in the use of the word “authoritarianism.” This ...

Dinesh D’Souza speaks to supporters of former Donald Trump at a campaign rally to benefit Pennsylvania Republican US Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz in Greensburg, Pa. (Jeff Swensen / Getty Images) By ...

On the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Vasily Grossman’s great anti-Soviet novel Life and Fate. Life and Fate is a massive literary fusion of poetry and mathematics, narrative and ...

Some four decades ago, Deng Xiao-ping, the paramount leader of Communist China, took command of a country that had been nearly wrecked through Mao Zedong’s radical Marxist experiments like the Great ...

Friendlessness is on the rise — and so, one must presume, is loneliness. That's the troubling takeaway from a study released last week by the Survey Center on American Life that shows the number of ...