He has a beard, a splitting maul, and a house in Michigan. Is that enough to convince America that he’s a man of the people?

The differences between me and other boys became clear to me only at age 12, when I enrolled in seventh grade at a public middle school. About a week into the school year, one of my teachers asked for ...

Nothing about Trump’s pronouncements changes the fact that millions more Americans will soon be stuck where my aunt was: in ...

Certain beliefs about the United States once seemed unshakable in China: that America was hopelessly far ahead, for example, ...

Trump promised to stop wars. His grip on his base is being questioned now that he’s started one.

Congress should not have to argue over whether to trigger the War Powers Resolution, and certainly not in the midst of conflict.

On Saturday, the United States, in a joint operation with Israel, killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. For ...

Both loyalists and dissidents cried over the death of Ayatollah Khamenei. This common reaction to a dictator’s demise is a symptom of the damage they do.

Before the arrival of European settlers, both Mauritius and the Chagos islands were uninhabited by humans. Mauritius was named by Dutch explorers for their ruling prince, Maurice; the Chagos were ...

Vigdis Hjorth, one of Norway’s most famous novelists, is best known for writing about the sexual assault of a child by her father. She’s published more than 20 books since the 1980s, a number of which ...

Rachel and the girls—plus Coleslaw the cat and Pinto the dog—had planned to stop at tourist attractions to say goodbye to the United States. But Rachel was so frustrated and anxious by the time they ...

“Every single one, except, I would say, Obama, had as a policy, one way or another, to bring an end to the Cuban government,” ...