July 2, 2018

In Mississippi’s special Senate election, Trump’s favor is ‘stronger than goat’s breath.’ This year that may hurt anti-establishment campaigns like Chris McDaniel’s.

Lindsey Graham, team player.

Child marriage is alive and well among the Yemeni-Americans in Dearborn, but education may finally erode that social norm.

Images of screaming children torn away from parents, photos of toddlers and even babies sitting alone in characterless detention centers, repellent bloviators defending the new policy as if splitting up families were itself the goal . . . the controversy over the Trump administration’s new “zero…

On June 14, Michael Horowitz, the Department of Justice’s inspector general, released a long-awaited report on the partisan shenanigans of a few FBI agents in the lead-up to the 2016 election. The report sharply criticizes then-director James Comey for his bad judgment and disregard for agency…

The Human Rights Council was a hangout for anti-Semitic cranks.

It’s a measure of how overabundant the scandal news is in the Justice Department inspector general’s report that the Peter Kadzik story has been pushed to the side. Maybe it’s because the Kadzik materials don’t start until page 461. Or maybe it’s that the Kadzik affair lacks the expletive-laced…

I would be the first to concede that President Trump’s behavior at the recent G7 summit, while not unexpected, was certainly unconventional. In his patented way, the president seemed to waver between a breezy, hail-fellow-well-met manner and irritability, declining to endorse a summary declaration…

A Trumpian rubric for our times.

Nothing good is likely to come from Trump’s tariffs.

Trump may well prefer for Mueller to play out the string.

Celebrating viewpoint diversity.

It takes experience to drain a swamp.

Sandra Day O’Connor envisioned a deadline for racial preferences.

Ilhan Omar bids to succeed Keith Ellison in Minnesota’s Fifth District.

Cathy Young on Simon Rattle: As he leaves the Berlin Philharmonic, what’s next for ‘the people’s conductor’?

Daniel Sarewitz on the impossibility—and the necessity—of distinguishing science from nonscience.

John Podhoretz on the forgettable fun of the long-awaited follow-up to Pixar’s ‘The Incredibles.’

Like hundreds of other media outlets, Vox.com sent reporters to cover President Donald Trump’s summit with North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-un in Singapore. On June 13, Vox’s foreign editor Yochi Dreazen wrote a piece headlined, “The big winner of the Trump-Kim summit? China.” Dreazen’s analysis was…

Readers who’ve spent time before city or county councils may know how lawless these bodies can sometimes be. Many hold “public” meetings without announcing the time or place, disregard laws on raising taxes and the appropriation of public money, hide the details of procurement contracts and…

In April, PBS announced that it will reboot Firing Line, the long-running public affairs television program hosted by William F. Buckley. The new show will be hosted by the libertarian-conservative commentator Margaret Hoover. We wish the endeavor well, although we wonder why Firing Line with…

The World Cup is well underway in Russia, and that country’s authorities have given “assurances” to visiting nations that their fans will be safe from what in Britain are termed “football hooligans.” The Russians have a “blacklist” of known hooligans, according to the BBC, and can assure foreign…

Few heroes of the past can escape the censure of today’s bigotry police. Every week, it seems, brings news that some heretofore revered figure said or wrote something we enlightened postmoderns consider untoward, obliging us to qualify any subsequent expressions of admiration.

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Joseph Epstein on profanity.