How the paranoid fringe has gone mainstream.

Like it or not, a hard Brexit is overwhelmingly likely. The goal, now, has to be to make the best of it.

The land of Goethe is fond of fiction, of course, which makes up 31.9 percent of total book sales. But it is non-fiction that generates the most conversation—and the most controversy.

Elia Kazan’s 1957 classic is a prescient warning about the power of demagogues, which remains all too relevant more than 60 years later.

Keep an eye on the big picture: Trump may not need to win the popular vote to earn a second Presidential term—especially if the Democrats neglect the Electoral College.

A new book makes a strong case for a national push to spur innovation—but it fails to connect dots when it comes to the China threat.

In the materialist gospel of right-wing atavism, longevity and teleology are one and the same.

Putin’s return to the Kremlin in 2012 blighted Russia’s chances of peaceable evolution. That will stay so while he and his inner circle hang on to power, perhaps beyond 2024. Russia and the rest of us will suffer in consequence.

The controversy over restoring Notre-Dame reflects a fallacy of the modern age: the idea that an old building becomes “inauthentic” if it is seamlessly restored.

If one foreign power continues to shred, on an ever-more daring basis, the integrity and inviolability of our electoral process, other foreign powers will draw lessons and follow. And they won’t all be pitching in on the Republican side.