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When U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska on Friday, it will be the latest chapter ...

Reagan, known as “The Great Communicator,” not just for his eloquence but for his ability to connect and convey complex ideas ...

As the governments of the U.K., Canada and France announce their intent to recognize a Palestinian state, I recall the words ...

President Trump has proposed building an antimissile “golden dome” around the United States. But do cinematic spectacles ...

After Colbert and the jobs report, if Donald Trump gets away with backdoor censorship, America's democracy will be on the line.

As the governments of the UK, Canada and France announce their intent to recognize a Palestinian state, I recall the words of C.S. Lewis, so aptly quoted by President Ronald Reagan in his famous "evil ...

It could be argued that presidential speechwriters are another group of Washington bureaucrats on the federal payroll. Presidents deliver hundreds of speeches and rely on speechwriters to craft their ...

At a time when Armenia needs allies around the world and advocates who are in the room where global events are shaped, ...

These rollbacks are part of the debilitating horror that right-wing dogmatists experience before the workings of secular and skeptical inquiry—the prospect that the ownership of their children (and ...

The artist discusses a work by the 17th-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi that he believes “blows Caravaggio away.”CreditCredit...Joshua Charow, Christopher Mitchell and Bill Vella Longo ...