The winner, WFB announced with unfeigned delight, was Sam Tanenhaus and he had won the sweepstakes for two reasons: First, he had written a book about Whittaker Chambers that WFB had admired. And ...

Greetings and welcome to this 36th episode of the Carnival of Fools! This may be the last one we stage in this dusty old theater, as mysterious foreign donors have just offered to upgrade the Carnival ...

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could begin enforcing the ban while litigation plays out in lower courts.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected by the College of Cardinals to succeed the late Pope Francis on Thursday, taking the papal name Pope Leo XIV.

Lashkar-e-Taiba, listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States, is the Islamist group accused of plotting attacks in India and in the West, including the three-day assault on Mumbai ...

Joe Nocera writes about how the cold, heartless ‘neoliberals’ took over American economic policy in the 1990s and have been proven wrong by Trump.

Scott Bessent, Treasury secretary in the second Trump administration, just published a piece in the Wall Street Journal that reads more like campaign spin than sound economic analysis or strategy. In ...

The ruling was issued in response to an emergency appeal and will remain in place only until the issue is decided in lower courts.

The pope has eleven distinct jobs, and the cardinals may not be focused on the jobs that get the most press.

New York Magazine ’s Ben Terris saved the most important part of his extensive profile of Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman for last: “I didn’t find any indication that the stroke had left him ...

During the same town hall, she also blasted the Trump administration’s deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members as ‘sanctioned kidnappings.’ ...

Asked if staffers concealed the president’s enfeebled mental state, Psaki responded, ‘I don’t know the facts of what was happening privately.’ ...