President Donald Trump is testing the principle of checks and balances by signing executive orders, by closing or sharply ...

We may be stuck with labels drawn from the political world. But the cardinals who enter the conclave tomorrow need to select ...

For years, President Donald Trump blamed “communists” for his legal and political troubles. Now, the second Trump administration is deploying that same historically loaded label to cast his opponents ...

In the midst of a cultural turn towards conservatism, the Black Dandy is a figure that finds resistance in tradition.

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The extraordinary longevity of the Catholic Church could make it seem like a body that floats above the everyday world of ...

President Trump’s idea to reopen Alcatraz as a functioning prison is a reflection of his political instincts and personal tastes, even as it is a long shot to come to fruition. Alcatraz, the ...

Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once ...

The American nation under the US Constitution began with a compromise that, among other things, quelled the founding fathers’ ...