President Trump has demanded that the Department of Justice prosecute his political enemies. He has ordered his aides to use the fearsome tools of the law to investigate fund-raising by the Democratic Party and liberal…

The US Department of Defense — newly renamed the Department of War by the Trump administration — has opted to wage its first war of the new era not on the battlefield but within the…

The latest sign of incipient authoritarianism is apparently that President Trump is building a ballroom.  After photos hit the wires showing construction equipment at the White House, tearing into the East Wing, critics lamented the…

It’s been said that Russians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Thankfully for Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s shambolic autocracy has been doing its best to live up to the saying.  After Putin…

As he was transported to La Santé prison in Paris on Tuesday, Nicolas Sarkozy posted a message brimming with defiance on X, writing “It’s not a former president of the republic who is being jailed…

The Amazon Holiday Kids Gift Book, which just recently hit mailboxes months ahead of Christmas, has become the modern child’s wish book — a glossy stand-in for the toy store aisles their parents once roamed. …

Opposing Donald Trump is a perilous business, but working for him can be equally as dangerous. That’s one lesson from Thursday’s indictment of Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton for mishandling classified documents.…

City administrators frequently find themselves coming across as curmudgeonly. Mention building an indoor pool or planting trees along downtown sidewalks, and their blood pressures start to climb. Where some see improved health and safety outcomes,…

Anyone who has visited Nevada knows the Silver State has an abundance of another natural resource: sunlight. Naturally, lawmakers there have been determined to make the most of it. The desert state generates about a…

These are bad times for democracy. Strongmen, from Vladimir Putin in Russia to Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, are flexing their muscles. In America and India democratically elected leaders are flirting with more personalized leadership,…