I guess I first became aware of Stephen Fry — the Cambridge-educated actor, author, and broadcaster who was knighted this year by King Charles — in the early 1990s, when he starred in a small, ...

I shamefully confess I watched the “No King” protests with a gleeful and almost-prurient mix of satisfaction and almost-arrogant disdain. It’s always good to see “We the People” expressing discontent ...

While President Donald Trump’s popular vote win and landslide electoral victory was historic, a report from Pew Research shows that Trump and the MAGA movement have increasingly resonated with a wider ...

After years of saying that Iran should never be allowed have nuclear weapons, Democrats are in a quandary over President Trump’s decision to bomb the rogue nation’s nuclear sites.  His bold yet ...

This bill is like yogurt, not wine,” one senator said, describing the One Big Beautiful Bill to Semafor. It was an apt description for legislation that President Donald Trump wants on his desk by ...

Churchill called the last volume of his World War II chronicle Triumph and Tragedy. He had held the West together not only by his fierce commitment to fight the tyrant to the death, but also by making ...

While the rainbow war banners of Pride Month have dominated June over the past several years, immigration raids, riots, airstrikes in the Middle East, and a host of significant U.S. Supreme Court ...

Count me all in for the mayoral candidacy of Zohran Mamdani in New York City. Mamdani is a literal democratic socialist — a ...

I actually called Melissa Mackenzie, our lovely, talented, and wise publisher, Wednesday afternoon and asked her to talk me out of writing this column. That didn't work. She insisted I write it.

In February 1976, 19-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis died at Fort Dix, New Jersey, from a respiratory illness. Testing ...

China has invented a mosquito-sized spy drone, and now I can’t wait for Trump to come up with a flyswatter. If a Democrat were in the White House, they’d probably be considering introducing a mandate ...

They call it broken heart syndrome. The clinical term is takotsubo cardiomyopathy, a name that sounds like something plucked from a Japanese horror film. But the horror is very real — and very Western ...