About half the population will be happy on this Inauguration Day, the other half not so much. There must be a better way to distribute political power so that happiness (which, after all, is written ...

An aerial view shows a data center situated near single-family homes in Stone Ridge, Va., last year. Local communities around the country are seeking more input on where and how data centers are built ...

America’s leaders have a funny way of showing their determination to make the federal government work again. President Donald Trump cared so much that he went golfing. Nothing shows a chief ...

One takeaway from the 2024 elections is the dizzying partisan gap between young men and women. Young men were fully 32 points more likely to vote Republican, a gender gap far larger than anything ever ...

In 1729, the Anglo-Irish clergyman Jonathan Swift devised what he called a "modest proposal" to for preventing the children of poor people from becoming a burden to their parents and country. In a ...

I have a modest proposal. We’ll get to it in a moment but, first, let’s talk about “Maus.” That, of course, is Art Spiegelman’s two-part graphic novel of his father’s experience in the Holocaust, ...