When the eighth and supposedly last Mission Impossible film, The Final Reckoning, is released this week, there will be little discussion of its writer-director Christopher McQuarrie or its talented ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s document is the 1985 treaty which gave ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal texts are section 19 of the Public ...

I am staring at an icon of the Raising of Lazarus when the world begins to spin around me. It is a sunny Saturday afternoon and I am wandering around the Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens, ...

As I reported a couple of weeks ago, either Delaware or New York would become the 11th state to make assisted dying legal. Delaware now has that distinction after the new governor signed it in law, ...

“Gertrude Stein Has Arrived”, read the tickertape snaking around the New York Times building, flashing breaking news to all who passed through Times Square. Over seven months, starting in October 1934 ...

A great play can put audience members on the edges of their seats. A terrible play, though, can force viewers to make either a diplomatic departure during the interval or a hunched, awkward stumble ...

Delaware has become the 11th US state to allow physician-assisted suicide ...

With its embrace of crypto, Trump's ‘free speech’ platform has become the digital echo of a slot machine hall: a sad, antisocial space for lonely people to lose money ...

When should you ban a far-right party? A motion to consider a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), signed by 113 members of parliament, has been submitted to Bundestag. It’s a sign of how ...

The Boott Cotton Mills Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts shakes and rattles with the movement of water-powered looms, massive and complex machines more than a century old. Based in what is now a ...

In the 1997 Australian comedy The Castle, an underprepared lawyer attempts to argue that the forced sale of his client’s house is in breach of the Constitution. The judge asks, “What section of the ...