Or why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez felt compelled to share her birth chart.

And neither is the contest to define his legacy, as three recent books show.

The Israeli-Palestinian peace movement got momentum at the end of history. Now that history is back, peace seems further and further away.

In the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s new Oresteia, humanism ex machina doesn’t save the day.

Part of what made Polish independence possible was an international commitment to democratic norms. Today, that commitment is in serious doubt.

India’s growth can zero out all the world’s environmental measures.

The Kremlin has given Volodymyr Zelensky a chilly reception, but the comedian-cum-President may have the last laugh.

Two under-appreciated recent films offer fresh and complementary perspectives about conflicts and why we intervene in them.

Francois Ruffin is an odd avatar for populism—in part because he hails from the very class he is critiquing.

There’s nothing intelligent to say about a massacre, wrote Kurt Vonnegut of his book about the firebombing of Dresden. So why are we still reading it a half-century later?