The book and the sword descended intertwined from Heaven,” the ancient rabbis declared. Together they do not guarantee ...

The meeting at the White House today yielded little progress toward peace—but it could have been far worse.

Trump appeared to treat the peace negotiation as basically a series of steps to be completed, while his counterparts were ...

That’s what autocrats do. They cow public servants into submission—and in doing so, they create a closed system that is free of opposing views and inconvenient concerns. Their policy making, their ...

On Friday, the phrase scientifically justified appeared several times in a statement by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya that ...

Charlie Calkins grew up in a big extended family. We’re talking about nearly 30 cousins—some of whom had their own kids. When ...

Peter Parnell is a Broadway and Off Broadway playwright and TV writer. In October, he will receive the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Bravery in Literature.

Memory change is not always a part of normal aging, with more than 7 million adults living with Alzheimer’s disease in the ...

Spike Lee loves fanfare. So many of the films in the director’s career begin with some sort of rousing opening-credits ...

Letting schools pay revenue-generating athletes is long overdue. If that means letting squash and water polo die, so be it.

The setting, as it so often is when Trump piles into a car with his thoughts and then goes full Thelma & Louise off a ...

So I’m going to say: Yes, you should check up on this grisly old boy, this diminished antagonist. You should be kind to him.