August 20, 2018

Cathy Young remembers the late Russian dissident whose mockery of communism earned him exile.

Can a high-profile former governor and presidential hopeful find happiness as a hardworking energy secretary?

In an Iowa metal shop, the booming economy is hiding the effects of Trump’s tariffs.

Getting out of the Paris Agreement was just the first step on the road to a realist global energy policy.

Meet the new Marco . . .

"This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics—and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!” So tweeted President Donald Trump on August 5. He was referring to members of his immediate family and his campaign team having met with Russian…

Colombia is a functioning republic with a bright future. Venezuela, its neighbor, is a nightmare. What accounts for the difference?

The news that Pope Francis has revised the Catechism of the Catholic Church to designate the death penalty “inadmissible” was greeted in the American media as evidence that the church is at last catching up with the times. That assessment, superficial though many Catholics will consider it, isn’t…

Mitch McConnell has not forgotten the painful lessons of the Bork nomination.

When potential clients crossed the threshold into his dark and paneled office not far from the White House, Clark Clifford would give them a little speech. Yes, he told them, he could offer them his “extensive knowledge of how to deal with the government on your problems.” And certainly he could…

Jim Jordan’s bid to succeed Paul Ryan.

Farmers are the first to feel the squeeze.

The meeting that launched a thousand controversies.

Jeremy Corbyn and the uses of idiocy.

Amy Henderson reviews the new novel by the author of ‘Under the Tuscan Sun.’

Catherine Addington reviews “Heavenly Bodies,” the Met’s exhibition of Godly garments and high couture.

Hannah Yoest on the work of Jon McNaughton, the painter of populist rage.

B.D. McClay on Sheila Heti’s ‘Motherhood’ and taking control by giving it up.

Naomi Schaefer Riley reviews the sequel to Allison Pearson’s ‘I Don’t Know How She Does It.’

A July 27 game between the Houston Astros and the Texas Rangers featured a few minutes of pointless delight. Chris White, a Marine veteran, made the unusual decision to remove his trousers and shirt, brandish his Stars-and-Stripes-themed underwear—silkies is the military term—and sprint across the…

Is The Scrapbook the only one who’s grown weary of the word team used where it doesn’t belong—outside the world of sports? For a year or two after Olympic teams were called Team USA or Team France, it was cute to refer to your company or office as “team” this or that. Then politicians got in on the…

In Europe and North America, museums just can’t win. It takes wealthy people and large corporations to keep them operating, but left-wing artists and intellectuals don’t like wealthy people and large companies.

Election season is upon us, and you know what that means—idiotic trickery dreamed up by campaign hacks and political consultants.

The fact-checking industry has grown tremendously in recent years, and mostly for good reason. Half-truths, outrageous rumors, and outright fabrications are common enough without the Internet. They are ubiquitous online. When fact-checking is well done (by, for instance, Glenn Kessler at the…

David Skinner’s shiners.