King Midas of legend paid for his vanity. He was horrified that he could not control the golden touch. He turned his daughter ...

From a song in “Les Misérables” to a hand gesture in “The Hunger Games,” these are just a couple of examples from Western pop culture that activists in Asia have hooked onto when protesting ...

Soviet dissidents have long admired the United States and its Founding Fathers for their attachment to a moral core, the ...

As the executive branch continues to test the boundaries of its authority with increasing brazenness, a growing number of federal judges have responded with remarkable clarity and courage. Their ...

El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele has turned a democracy into an authoritarian state. It's a warning for other democracies ...

The Voting Rights Act is quite likely dead given previous Supreme Court decisions under Chief Justice John Roberts, opines ...

Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College for half a century, has seen many crises shake American colleges. But none has ...

We're taught to inhibit our empathetic natures with messages like “Don’t cry,” “You’re too sensitive,” “Mind your own business.” ...

Andrei Sakharov, the father of the Soviet H-bomb who later won the Nobel Peace Prize for his criticism of the Communist ...

The viral YouTube debate show attempts to anthropomorphize the internet, turning incendiary discourse into live-action ...

Like the even more celebrated "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949), Orwell's "Animal Farm" — marking its 80th anniversary this month — is a political broadside.

The United States of America has consistently proven since its founding 249 years ago that it is, if nothing else, a ...