An Editor at Large: Columnist Gerard Baker explains how the public started out opposing the conflict in Iran, in part because of the Trump administration's lack of rhetorical prowess, and how that ...

On April 25, a gunman made an attempt on President Donald Trump’s life. This was the third such attempt in roughly two years. The first was in 2024 during a rally in Butler, Pa., where the president — ...

Reform of the nation’s higher-education institutions – like reform of any undertaking or organization – comes in various ...

William Safire, a lion among conservative columnists in the United States and an expert linguist with a taste for wordplay, died Sunday from cancer. He was 79. An obituary in the New York Times, where ...

After Watergate, Congress tried to curtail the role of money in politics. But a pivotal Supreme Court case nipped it in the ...

When liberals and progressives argue that the ultra-rich have way too much power in U.S. politics, the Supreme Court case ...

By today’s standards of thinking about the federal government, one could argue that the south believed it should have been ...

America's editors (l) and William F. Buckley (r) in undated photos. Credit: Composite/Wikimedia Commons. “Lines spoken to the Pope just shouldn’t sound like lines pitched at the editors of The New ...

Trump’s Remaking of D.C. President Trump plans to build a park along the Potomac River featuring life-size statues of 250 ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was feeling optimistic heading into the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, promising a “funny” speech from Donald Trump. But even the health secretary couldn’t ...