By refusing to talk about Islamism, President Obama is ceding the terms of debate to the likes of Trump.

A conversation about the economic transformations sweeping across the United States.

Two pundits—one ancient and one modern—explore the past, present, and future of old age.

The UK’s vote to leave the European Union will make Europe more inward looking and less able to act.

People tend to confine Shakespeare’s political thinking to the plays, with the sonnets being a sort of autobiographical love triangle. Not so. The sonnets are at the heart of his civic-minded poetic project.

James M. Cain’s one-two punch—The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) and Double Indemnity (1943)—gave us the film noir era, but was it art?

The U.S. should do more to let Russian pensioners know the Kremlin is too busy doling out billions to Putin and his buddies to give a damn about their welfare.

Europe’s illiberal democracies have gained a new member, and the world has taken notice.

If demographic projections hold, NATO is in even bigger trouble than we thought.

It will indeed, unless something changes, according to a member of a European Union delegation to the United States investigating shell companies.