Ted Olson didn’t live to see how quickly Trump’s blackmail could reduce once-proud law firms to pitiable supplicants for the president’s grace.
His overhaul of the State Department’s human rights bureau will make the United States weaker.
Even Shakespeare might not have dreamed up this family.
It’s the quest for the handshake that guides Trumpian foreign policy on almost every front.
What we can learn from polls about the president’s action-filled second term so far and how Democrats are looking.
Raising questions about who gets to claim to be an American powered the president’s political rise. A Supreme Court case may allow him reinterpret a right enshrined in the Constitution since the 1800s.
At the Whitney, her pristine and color-drenched paintings of neighbors and dreamers and a kid on a slide challenge the conventions of portraiture.
Justice David H. Souter, who died last week, said in 2012 that public ignorance of the Constitution could lead to the rise of an autocrat and the death of democracy.
A Harvard economist argues that a decline in manufacturing jobs is not what ails the United States.
Donald Trump will either have to accept a nuclear deal with Iran that looks a lot like the one he denounced, or use military force, with hugely unpredictable consequences.
Many of the current efforts to expand the powers of the White House build on the excesses of recent Republican and Democratic presidents.
The president named his first appeals court candidate this week, but fewer vacancies and other priorities have led to a lack of judicial nominations from the White House so far.
Politics drive a wedge between even the longest of friends.
We got our economic response to the coronavirus right. Why would we let go of that success?