Identity politics is sometimes justified as a regrettable but inevitable overcorrection. In a perfect world, the argument goes, there would be no need for racist university admissions policies. In a perfect world, no one would be hounded out of public life for accidentally using the wrong form of words. But given our past, some overshoot is said to be a small price to pay. Canceling people on social media, pulling books from publication, unfairly firing academics — these things are lesser evils than slavery or segregation.

San Francisco has suddenly discovered that its brave boycott of red-state contractors is doing nothing but harming its own residents.

After nearly a century of public service, Jimmy Carter has entered home hospice care, signaling that the end is near for America's longest living president. While Carter's lackluster tenure in the White House has been largely overshadowed by his post-presidential philanthropy, conservatives in particular ought to recognize that it was Carter who began to tackle the inflation crisis that Richard Nixon created.

It is difficult to say how future historians will describe the current rift in Israeli democracy.

Bell's palsy describes an "unexplained episode of facial muscle weakness or paralysis" caused by damage to the facial nerve.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday said that President Biden is neglecting domestic problems by making an international trip this week that included a surprise trip to Kyiv to show support for Ukraine in its war with Russia. “We have a lot of problems accumulating here in our own country that he is neglecting,”...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is firing back after some of his would-be rivals for the 2024 GOP presidential nod took swipes at him in recent days. “If you’re an office holder and you’re just sitting there twiddling your thumbs and not getting anything done, no one ever says anything,” he said during a Monday appearance...

Russia called the U.S. the “primary source” of international tensions after Washington expressed support for Ukrainian strikes in Crimea and accused Russia of war crimes. The swipe comes after Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said last week the U.S. supports Ukrainian strikes against military targets on Crimea, which Russia annexed from...

Iran appears to have made a new and worrying advance in its nuclear program. Bloomberg reported on Sunday that it has reached the level of 84 percent enriched uranium, a significant advance on the 60 percent previously announced. The magic number needed for making an atomic bomb is 90 percent. The new figure was discovered...

Developers hope to tweak the tech so e-cigarette users can benefit.