Opinion pieces

Once upon a time, a real estate developer known for his shady financial dealings had a son who was determined to follow in his footsteps. Backed by his father’s ill-gotten fortune, the son embarked on an ambitious business career, but ended up losing many millions in...

The trouble with the style of politics being practiced by Donald Trump’s acolytes in Congress these days is its predictability, a quality most public figures—let alone the rest of us—try to avoid. Sure, such behavior was newsworthy during the heyday of their Great...

In case you haven’t noticed, Vladimir Putin is angry. You'd never know it from his expression, of course, but behind the impassive facade lies an abiding rage that is difficult to account for in an all-powerful ruler reputed to be one of the richest men in the world....

Among the more memorable of Winston Churchill's speeches during World War II was one he delivered on 19 November 1942. At this point in the conflict, the Axis Powers had reached the furthest extent of their conquests, which included all of continental Europe as far...

In what can only be reckoned an instance of cognitive derangement, defenders of last year’s January 6 attack on the Capitol have ventured to suggest that an episode of overt violence involving multiple deaths was in fact a legitimate act of political dissent, a lawful...

“Do you know how it feels to have the president of the U.S. target you?” asked Ruby Freeman, a former Black election worker from Georgia. Her life, and that of her daughter, Wandrea Shaye Moss (also a former election worker), were turned upside down when they were...