Authored by John Walter via Substack, I need to be honest with you before we begin. I don't have all the answers. Anyone who claims to understand exactly how economic systems collapse, or precisely when, is either lying or selling something.

Have we reached the “end of history”? A little-known former RAND analyst, Francis Fukuyama, asked that provocative question in a lecture he delivered at the University of Chicago in February 1989. Invited by his mentor, Allan Bloom, Fukuyama presented his analysis in a series on the perennial...

Name: Lauren Underwood What office are you seeking: U.S. House of Representatives, IL-14 What is your political party? Democrat What is your current age?

How sad should we be when a language dies? Consider the case—call it callous or simply tough-minded—for saying, “Not at all.” A language, when it comes down to it, is a means of communication. When too few people are using it to communicate, it has stopped doing its principal job, and i...

About 10 years ago, I was quite sympathetic — empathetic, even — to the Black Lives Matter movement in its early days. That sympathy ran so deep that the first book I ever published, A Single Life, was a 2020 novel about a black Jewish protagonist, a character built to sit at the intersection...

In its nationwide immigration crackdown, the Trump administration has charged hundreds of people with assaulting or impeding federal agents. President Donald Trump has branded them “insurrectionists,” “animals” and “thugs,” part of a broader effort by his administration to cast protes...

Reporting HighlightsPrivate Schools, Public Money: Friendly state legislatures are steering money to private schools, catalyzing huge growth in recent years with far-reaching consequences. Minimal Oversight: States examined by ProPublica have little interest in overseeing the schools: not who run...

JERUSALEM — The stone footpath begins at the tomb of King David, revered by Jews, and curves past the room where Christians believe Jesus held the Last Supper. Nearby, the Dormition Abbey towers over a site where many believe Mary slept before being taken to heaven.Steeped in history and faith,...

Cynthia Brown first heard about the terror of 1898 as a child in the mid-nineteen-sixties. Her parents had taken her to visit her great-grandmother Athalia Howe Whitfield (Grandma Thalia), a native of Wilmington, North Carolina, who by then was living in Pennsylvania. Brown remembered going int...