More than any president in memory, Donald Trump is attuned to aesthetics.  This should scarcely come as a surprise, given that Trump is our first builder-turned-president. In his previous vocation as a real estate developer, Trump became familiar with the things that make a building more than merely functional but surpassingly beautiful. One senses that […]

Police, firefighters, paramedics, and others who put their lives on the line to serve the public are themselves facing a crisis. Studies show they’re stressed out, short-staffed, and at an increased risk of suicide.  When the well-being of our nation’s emergency personnel suffers, so do our communities, as inadequate resources lead to increased response times […]

I am a writer in Los Angeles, which is just a sidelong way of saying I still have roommates as I approach 30. I’m lucky in that it’s a largely frictionless affair, though the television is far too communal for someone who watches far too much of it. The other night I was catching up […]

The Treasury Department said Iran has increasingly utilized criminal networks to conduct attacks targeting the U.S. as well as attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets in Europe.

The US Postal Service has signed an agreement with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the US Postal Service budget.

Jack Teixeira pleaded guilty to obstruction charges Thursday, while describing himself as a "proud patriot" who was trying to expose the supposed “lies" of the Biden administration.

In his famed 16th-century tract The Prince, the Florentine diplomat and author Niccolò Machiavelli warned that mercenaries are “dangerous,” for they are “disunited, ambitious and without discipline, unfaithful and valiant before friends” while being “cowardly before enemies.” Soldiers of fortune, Machiavelli claimed, “have neither the fear of God nor fidelity to men.” Such men fill […]

The exhibition “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” will run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 11. After a long day of hiking, you’ve finally reached the top of the mountain. Tired, thirsty, but exhilarated by your accomplishment, you set your walking stick at your side and look around. But instead of […]

The first city was founded by the first murderer in the biblical story, which tells us something deep about urban dwellings. Jam a crowd of people inside city walls, and what did anyone expect would be the result? Disease, depravity, crime, and the madness of the mob. In the Bible‘s first books, Sodom and Gomorrah […]

Often in political history, towering figures command such attention that even the most consequential of their contemporaries are reduced to footnotes. George S. Boutwell dedicated his life to the defense of democracy, the abolition of slavery, civil rights, and the fight against imperial expansion, yet his name is hardly remembered outside academic circles. He helped […]