Erik Slavin is a writer based in Arlington, Virginia. He was the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes.

Americans may not realize for many years just how lucky they were that Lonnie G. Bunch III led the Smithsonian Institution ...

Francis Fukuyama has long been considered a naive triumphalist. He now wants to set the record straight. Francis Fukuyama ...

Most of Europe bans it. The United Nations likens it to slavery. But in the United States, business is booming.

Washington, D.C., is full of cords of connection. By removing a Joel Shapiro work, the Kennedy Center severed one.

Twenty-five years on from September 11, 2001, an image or memory can still evoke the very moment I learned that my ...

Tom Healy is a poet. He led the Fulbright Scholars program under President Obama and served on the first White House Council on HIV/AIDS under President Clinton.

The more unusual Aschenbrenner seemed, the more this played in his favor. His essay, which set the wonkiest corners of ...

Any software that could practice medicine autonomously would be similarly specialized: not generic ChatGPT, but a model ...

Kennedy Jr. took office last year as secretary of health and human services, he has called for the removal of artificial dyes ...

Raising children comes with enough trade-offs without enforcing unforgiving standards for parental attention, entertainment, ...

After months of clashes with the White House, the historian and leader of the institution is retiring later this year.