Far from being the preserver of minority cultures, post-nationalism will melt them all down into a generic blend, with all the charms of an Earls restaurant and the spirit of an NGO. In 1995, Canada had its fair share of problems, but it was not official government policy to denigrate ...
A year ago today, I woke up, confirmed I hadn’t imagined the fresh hell of election night, and started sobbing. It broke me that the America my 3-year-old daughter was growing up in and that I was about to bring my unborn son into had endorsed Trump’s dark vision. I couldn’t...
The annual poverty threshold for two people living together with a child was $19,055 last year, but it was $28,633 for two parents living apart, according to The Future of Children, a research journal produced by Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Af...
Russia has faced a historic slew of penalties from Washington, Brussels and beyond since it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. The punishments, chiefly economic sanctions, were designed in large part to drain Russia’s coffers so it would struggle to fund its war...
the president’s party has lost the national House popular vote in six out of seven midterm elections — usually by similar margins (6 to 9 percentage points) to boot. The exception in both cases was the 2002 election, when Republicans under Bush’s leadership won the popular vote by 4.6 ...
” Analogous historic gun laws, according to the court, need not be “a dead ringer for historical precursors” but must be “analogous enough to pass constitutional muster.” Second, many believe this slavish devotion to history to be deeply flawed. For example, why should l...
can be found. The Internet is to our present what Radio Free America was being broadcast into the Soviet Union. We claimed the Russian people were deprived of the real news. Well today, the President wants that same power as...
Earth and climate scientists have known for decades that humans are causing the rapid warming of the planet, with many predictable consequences like rising sea levels, more extreme heat, and devastating flooding. "This report really confirms information that was already previously available," emphasized...
If Thomas Nast favored social liberalism, why was he a Republican? Nast was a Republican before the two parties shifted in their philosophies. So how did the parties flip-flop? The history of each party is complex, and the shift was gradual, but the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as ...
The era of the American Revolution was marked by a series of outbreaks in town and countryside. Urban violence runs from the Stamp Act riots in 1765 through the Sons of Liberty violence, the Boston Massacre, the burning of the Gaspee, and the Boston Tea Party to the incident that triggered...