We are drawn to our group identities in part from a place of belonging, and in part from a very real evolutionary need for survival. Human beings are not built to survive without group support. Human ...

My father visited me once while I was working for Congress, and I took him to the D.C. Armory to see the marching bands perform. This was a brilliant stroke on my part as a son, as my father loves ...

People often wonder why it is that so many of the brilliant, over-educated and powerful movers and shakers who run politics, finance, academia, science, the arts and business, could have ...

Almost four years ago, after Donald Trump won the White House, I interviewed political scientist Dorian Warren to get his thoughts about that stunning turn of events. Among other things, I asked him ...

“This is a far, far away country about which we know very little,” said Neville Chamberlain in 1938 as he declined to take his country to war over Adolf Hitler’s claim to the Sudetenland. Indeed, ...

I disdain the tribalist. Such a person cares only about his tribe and not others. The tribalist takes pride in the achievements of the individuals who happen to be members of the tribe. But the ...

The diagnosis is easy. America has divided into two hostile tribes, each willing to believe the most outlandish lies about the other, each keener on hunting heretics than on winning converts. But what ...

The United States government stands mere months, if not weeks, from the passing of stablecoin legislation that will set the playing field for the global economy for decades, if not centuries, to come.

As long as football is something people care deeply about there will always be tension and ill-temper in it – Arthur Hopcraft, The Football Man, 1968 This one is for the perplexed and non-plussed, the ...

It’s mid-August, summer's almost over, amazingly enough. Kids are going to resume their education not just in this country, but around the world. In Ireland, as kids began to return to school ...