With the Islamic Republic under strain, a new book shows that its rise was mainly a stroke of bad luck. The Islamic Republic ...

The DNI’s office doesn’t explain exactly what the “Russia hoax” is, and for good reason. First, although the phrase has ...

Better than data is when you can tell a story about something that happened to a guy you knew, or better yet, a guy your ...

While the funds were frozen, an informal alliance emerged between rural and big-city educators who pushed back against the ...

Virginia Woolf’s wild run of creativity in her 40s included writing her masterpiece on the terrors and triumphs of middle age ...

On Telegram, an account linked to the Toledo, Ohio, chapter of the Proud Boys declared: “Toledo Boys living high on the hog ...

Explaining away even the most horrific acts of violence by saying some people are just wicked is understandable—but it won’t ...

But a day before the forum began, the officers’ staff got calls from the Pentagon telling them to stay away. On social media, ...

The proliferation of the term blood libel as a rhetorical tic is especially revealing. The blood libel is a medieval ...

Editor’s Note: Is anything ailing, torturing, or nagging at you? Are you beset by existential worries? Every Tuesday, James ...

After my father got sick, his collaborations with Jim Henson kept me afloat.

Toluse Olorunnipa is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is a co-author of His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the ...