Theodore Sedgwick distrusted democracy, feared political equality and believed society should be guided by educated, propertied elites. Yet at a moment when partisan fury threatened to break the ...

Trump has given new meaning to government corruption, graft, grift, profiteering, self-dealing and pay-to-play politics. From the proposed White House ballroom and its taxpayer-backed security ...

Without immigrants, a nation becomes a stagnation. I think about the contributions and sacrifices that immigrants have made ...

The University of Florida and other red-state schools are fostering a conservative vision for the humanities to compete ...

A new book by Edward Stourton, a veteran British journalist and broadcaster, presents Donald Trump as a direct product of deep-rooted historical trends in American politics and society.

In this week's column, Bill Reinsch outlines how the Alien Tort Statute is reemerging as a major legal issue, with a pending Supreme Court case potentially providing guidance to plaintiffs and ...

Whatever the outcome of the “deal, or no deal” scenario with Iran, the public attitude toward the war has been disturbing.

At first, it didn’t sound right. Someone must have miscalculated. How could there be so much fraud that has robbed taxpayers of billions of dollars without anyone seeming to notice? Worse, it appears ...