Right about now you may be experiencing a distinct feeling of dread and anxiety as you realize that whatever grasp you had of the fundamental principles of governance as expressed in the hallowed document known as the United States Constitution, which you might have mastered in your long-gone years
When the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the president get into a tiff, could the nation’s highest court fall to pieces?
Amnesia Nigeriana: When Nigerians blank out national trauma to preserve sanity. Op: How many U.S. officials will be branded anti-Semites before AIPAC and Lieberman realize that Netanyahu screwed up? Wyoming's hawkish senator Alan Simpson is back, but Republicans can't love him in the Tea
There is in the life of the collector a dialectical tension between the poles of disorder and order. Naturally, his existence is tied to many other things as well: to a very mysterious relationship to ownership, something about which we will have more to say later; also a relationship to
Few examples exist of pouring blood as a form of political protest, and no one--including Thai magicians--knows what it means. Fizzy anticipation over Obama's visit to Indonesia. Op: Obama's education reform is a compromise designed to placate school administrators and teacher unions. Six suicides
There are some people who believe Alfred Nobel and Joseph Pulitzer are better known for the prizes that bear their names than their places in history. Such an optimistic claim is at the least arguable especially now that there are so many awards that even the bad is celebrated—bad
Like many Americans, despite a nagging sense of better judgment and the guilt that follows from ignoring that judgment, I succumbed to unseen societal forces and purchased one of those new fangled televisions—which, of course, requires some kind of connection to the grid with its multitudinous and maddening choices.
Spring is popping up all around New York City, but those crocuses have a dark history. Explaining the Pagan past of what's growing on 87th Street.
Israel and the U.S. speak more gently in public, but privately remain at a standstill. Op: The American demands are reasonable and fair; stagnation in the diplomatic process is a threat Israel can by no means afford. Rabbis to perform the Passover story on Twitter. Lions, subsurface fist-fights,
George Mitchell's return to the Middle East now indefinitely postponed. Construction will continue in Jerusalem as this has been the case over the past 42 years. Op: Obama, please tone down the rhetoric; Netanyahu, cancel the building in Ramat Shlomo. Kim Jong-un is North Korea's
