Trust in our current meritocratic system has plummeted, with large masses of voters turning instead to populist leaders ...

I considered and rejected several alternatives. Free rein? —but that suggested an unappealing level of license. Better ...

Parents whose kids have left home need a better metaphor—one that emphasizes possibility.

In the future, even winning the former “Blue Wall” states won’t be enough for the party’s presidential nominees.

The system is rigged: Students from families in the top 1 percent of earners were 77 times more likely to attend an Ivy ...

Few events in American literary history have been more curious than the sudden rise of Emily Dickinson into a posthumous fame only more accentuated by the utterly recluse character of her life and by ...

Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard, and Pete Hegseth share one crucial thing in common. Donald Trump spent much of the 2024 ...

Gabbard has every right to her personal views, however inscrutable they may be. As a private citizen, she can apologize for ...

Donald Trump will begin his second term as president the same way he began his first—with Republicans controlling both the ...

Donald Trump has won the public embrace of virtually every Republican currently in federal elected office. In private, ...

Musk’s role is a glaring conflict of interest; SpaceX has been an aerospace contractor for years and could stand to profit nicely from the creation of DOGE, which could shift government functions to ...

The announcements of Donald Trump’s early picks for his administration has been like the limbo: The bar keeps dropping and ...