Is President Trump’s grand strategy unraveling? The United States is at war with Iran, China is ascendant, Russia and Ukraine ...

Most great writers agonise over punctuation. Oscar Wilde wrote that revising one of his poems took a day: the morning to take a comma out, the afternoon to reinstate it. When Mark Twain heard that ...

A doctor shared how a post about wearing a bindi turned into a flood of racist comments, prompting her to respond with facts, personal experience and a call for kindness ...

Controversy about the meanings of antisemitism, especially in relation to Israel, has become one of the major flash points in contemporary politics. Mark Mazower’s invaluable history of the concept ...

Thucydides’ Trap—the idea that a rising power and an anxious hegemon are fated to collide—has become the go-to shorthand for understanding China and the United States, invoked even by Xi Jinping ...

One of Ukraine’s most controversial combat units, an elite special forces company named the Bratstvo Battalion, is also the country’s only exclusively Christian unit. While Ukraine was still refusing ...

The endorsements are the latest development in a dispute over the party’s say in who is a Republican in Wyoming.

Most Americans, unfortunately, believe that we are still living in the constitutional republic created in 1787. That was five ...

A federal judge blocked three Trump administration immigration policies, citing evidence of racial preference in how ...

The Supreme Court’s decision about President Donald Trump’s attempt to narrow access to birthright citizenship left no doubt ...

Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. I was in the middle of writing a different Optimizer ...

Murray Rothbard saw government as a predatory, criminal entity and the Microsoft lawsuit of 1998 proved to be a classic ...