American Politics

The rise of film and television in the first half of the twentieth century led several of…

Less than one year old and stricken with a rare degenerative disease, Charlie Gard is on life…

At the close of its term last month, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Masterpiece Cakeshop, one…

Poland has been an unabashedly pro-American country. No wonder President Trump received a warm welcome here, not…

Henry Olsen’s brilliant, revisionist intellectual biography of Ronald Reagan should transform how we think of our fortieth…

Msgr. Thomas A. Whelan, my pastor when I was growing up in Baltimore, was a striking character:…

“The time has come for your baby to die,” a doctor told the grieving parents of a…

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech in Chicago last week, laying out a new mission for the…

With a burst of religious zeal rarely seen in the secular press, Time magazine has published a…

“Doctor, what’s that sound?” The voice startled me. I was performing brain surgery on a woman with…

For years, the Southern Poverty Law Center has enjoyed respect and deference in American political culture, with…

Every Sunday school student is acquainted with Scripture’s great hair. First comes Esau the hairy man—possibly a…

During last year’s presidential election campaign, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a latecomer to the Democratic Party, positioned…

Now that the most expensive House race in U.S. history has ended—with Republicans managing to retain the…

I loved Wonder Woman. That’s quite an admission, since the female-directed (Patty Jenkins) fantasy is supposed to…