We are poised to relive that whole plunge into scientific darkness. Forget about Mars, folks, we are headed back to ...

A president who wins a mandate from the American people should get the team he wants. But that proposition has limits, especially with Donald Trump.

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With billionaires on bended knee and criminal charges vanishing, America's strongman era begins. How can you react?

Since Donald Trump won reelection, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have both done what the now-president ...

This year’s economics award reinforces a comforting but false story about democracy.

TAIPEI--Democracy is not a crime and autocracy is the real “evil,” Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Monday after China threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for ...

While running errands the day after the election, a couple of store clerks asked me the innocent question “how are you today?” For the first time in my life, I ...

Trump has been supportive of the monarchy, but other past comments have been incendiary. (Left to right) King Charles III, Donald Trump and Prince William in a composite image. Trump has been ...