International recognition will do as much to rebuke Hamas’s maximalist demands as it will those of the Israeli right, dealing ...

Kate Riley’s perceptive debut novel, Ruth, depicts the life of a woman in a repressive sect without an ounce of sanctimony.

Trump appeared to treat the peace negotiation as basically a series of steps to be completed, while his counterparts were ...

Memory change is not always a part of normal aging, with more than 7 million adults living with Alzheimer’s disease in the ...

In mid-April, I flew to Japan because I’d become obsessed with an 11th-­century Japanese novel called The Tale of Genji. I also had a frantic longing to escape my country. At its best, literature is a ...

Letting schools pay revenue-generating athletes is long overdue. If that means letting squash and water polo die, so be it.

On Friday, the phrase scientifically justified appeared several times in a statement by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya that ...

The setting, as it so often is when Trump piles into a car with his thoughts and then goes full Thelma & Louise off a ...

The book and the sword descended intertwined from Heaven,” the ancient rabbis declared. Together they do not guarantee ...

So I’m going to say: Yes, you should check up on this grisly old boy, this diminished antagonist. You should be kind to him.

That’s what autocrats do. They cow public servants into submission—and in doing so, they create a closed system that is free of opposing views and inconvenient concerns. Their policy making, their ...

A couple of years ago, our picture book was pulled from library shelves in Florida. Now an evolving legal strategy threatens others like it.