The conventional wisdom about government shutdowns is that they always fail. Senate Democrats probably assumed as much when ...

Sitting in immigration court, I saw firsthand that they represent the norm. There was at least one deportation case that most ...

I n 1985, President Ronald Reagan appointed me as a federal judge. I was 38 years old. At the time, I looked forward to ...

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The Democrats are still in a tough position: To win back the Senate next year, their party must win a handful of seats in red ...

This is not how a representative government works. It is how the Mafia works.

shielded in valleys. Love, may we make this day. Love, give me lips and noses, skin parting tangy skin.

This rhetorical move may generate applause from partisans, but it’s self-defeating, because societies that externalize their ...

What the photographer Edward Burtynsky found in a tire pile in Modesto, California, and on the shores of Western Australia ...

A Guardian and a Thief begins promisingly, offering nuanced portraits of its main characters. On the first page, the reader ...

Some of the funniest bits are about her raising her son. When she’s ashamed of yelling at him: “It’s like bitch-slapping E.T.” When another mother in her son’s class makes a passive-aggressive comment ...