Yet the Government Accountability Office estimates that the government loses roughly $50 billion to $100 billion a year to ...

Dismissing evidence that a politician might be unfit for office is as much a mistake for the right as it was for the left.

Crypto is a conduit for the self-interest that has defined Trump’s entire political career—an M.O. that has consistently ...

Fortunately, more reliable sources than DOGE’s self-reported figures exist. The best is the Treasury Department’s monthly ...

Quiet ego is a wonderful way to mute the cacophony of the egotistical world. You don’t need to go the whole way toward the ...

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Don’t expect Leo XIV to be merely progressive or conservative.

Some people spend a lifetime trying to unravel their relationship with their mother. That bond, after all, is fundamentally ...

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion ...

And yet, the conclave that concluded today in Rome has chosen the first American pope in the history of the Catholic Church: ...

Reading about sycophantic AI, I’ve been struck by how it mirrors another problem. As I’ve written previously, social media ...

India and Pakistan are fueling each other’s extremism without an off-ramp in sight. The conflict between India and Pakistan ...