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Partway through his second inaugural address on January 20, Donald Trump started listing the executive orders he planned to sign that day. Among others,

On February 28 Israeli warplanes assassinated Ali Khamenei, Iran’s leader, by dropping thirty bombs on his compound in Tehran. It was the opening salvo of

“I’m struck by ballet’s ability to create something extraordinarily beautiful out of something so difficult and so taxing on the brain and body. ”

In January, during a lengthy New York Times interview with President Donald Trump, one of the paper’s reporters asked him whether he saw “any checks” to

In every era a certain kind of unprincipled demagogue driven by an insatiable need for attention and a sense of what will capture the public's imagination rises to the fore. In the early years of France’s Third Republic, it was the ludicrous Marquis de Morès.

A new history brings to light the dissenting women who wrote, preached, and testified during England’s tumultuous seventeenth century, claiming the standing to speak as excluded outsiders who had un unfiltered knowledge of God.

Chiang Kai-shek had enormous flaws as a leader, but something was nonetheless lost to China when he and his Republican government were forced into exile on Taiwan.

A new history of satire wants to limit the genre to its political ramifications, but satirists are often interested in the whole person and their capacity for vice.

Progressives may have lost the battle for racial affirmative action, but ironically, Supreme Court decisions should allow colleges to give advantage to groups defined by their income, geography, or heritage.

The Israeli writer S. Yizhar’s 1949 novella Khirbet Khizeh portrays the violent reality of the Nakba. For decades it was part of the canon of Hebrew literature. That has changed.

The diary of the sixteenth-century physician Felix Platter is without precedent in early modern literature.

The Leiden Collection—one of the largest private collections of Dutch art in the world—was conceived as a “lending library for Old Masters, ” animated by the humanist spirit found in Rembrandt’s paintings.

When Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013 and promised to find inventive ways to make journalism profitable in the digital age, he seemed like a godsend. He wasn’t.

In David Greig’s novel The Book of I, a monk, a Viking, and a ‘mead wife’ navigate a world torn between paganism and Christianity.