I n 1985, President Ronald Reagan appointed me as a federal judge. I was 38 years old. At the time, I looked forward to ...

This is not how a representative government works. It is how the Mafia works.

Richard Bruce Cheney showed his true colors that day, no less than he had during the wretched excesses of his response to ...

This rhetorical move may generate applause from partisans, but it’s self-defeating, because societies that externalize their ...

W hen America’s Founders wrote the declaration that gave birth to the new nation, they began by saying that “a decent respect ...

The Democrats finally have their groove back—or at least a semblance of a groove. The convention was held, somewhat awkwardly ...

A shutdown was a risky way for Democrats to make a point, because it gave the executive branch even more discretion in the ...

Mamdani won by a modest margin in a deeply blue city not because of his radical commitments, but despite them.

Amid the president’s fast-moving deportation campaign, the stories of most people being swept up are missed.

Some of the funniest bits are about her raising her son. When she’s ashamed of yelling at him: “It’s like bitch-slapping E.T.” When another mother in her son’s class makes a passive-aggressive comment ...