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Major anniversaries of the Declaration of Independence have a way of coming at inconvenient times. When the bicentennial took place, the United States had suffered a humiliating defeat in Vietnam, Congressional investigations had revealed massive FBI spying on US citizens, and Richard Nixon had just resigned in disgrace. Public confidence in the government was at [...]

Mitchell Zimmerman Otherwords  This Fourth of July marks the 250th birthday of a new kind of nation state — based not on ancestral ties to a land or on the territorial reach of monarchs, but on shared principles about the rights of citizens and the purpose of the state. The Founding Fathers set forth those principles in […]

I can't stop wondering if guests wearing black tie have to use the regular concourse bathrooms at Madison Square Garden.

Yakov M. Rabkin The Israeli government recognized the deaths of one and a half million Armenians during World War I as genocide for political reasons, and Armenia is not even the intended addressee here. Prime Minister Pashinyan quite rightly noted that his country is not interested in turning the recognition of the Armenian genocide into […]

The president’s obsession with the nation’s capital is growing as he reaches the limits of presidential power.

The post “He Didn’t Need to Die.” How an Immigration Detention Center Repeatedly Failed to Address a Mental Health Crisis. appeared first on ProPublica.

Oliver Bäte says Europe can no longer afford all the options its citizens expect.

Henry Fernandez says the index provider has grown by playing soccer, not singles tennis.