My mother once knew a physicist she purposely used as conversational garnish. She'd add him into her small Rome gatherings [...]

Rome slept soundly in July and August of the 1960s. So soundly you might have heard a snore, at least [...]

At the height of post-Nixon era disenchantment about politics, politicians and America's seemingly broken moral and financial order, the screenwriter [...]

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Reverse American history for a moment. Think of a country composed of a few dozen states, each sovereign and separately [...]

Casual borrowing of meaingful political and ideological concepts can push sane debate toward ill-advised fringes and beyond. Take fascism. During [...]

Liberal elitism can be as exasperating as conservative buffoonery. Both indulge caricature and cliché, sly or loud. Consider a recent [...]

The woman's voice began early this morning and every few minutes has repeated the same sequence. Numero 77, numero 6, [...]

Among the toughest jobs for a young journalist to land in the antediluvian 20th-century was a staff writer's position with [...]

There is nothing one president made that another cannot dismantle, or try to. This simple bromide rooted in playground politics [...]

In the winter of 2014, newly elected Democratic Party leader Matteo Renzi staged the equivalent of a palace coup. Young, [...]