Tuesday’s midterm elections have already been given a name: the “blue tsunami.” Democrats won the House by a margin not seen in years and picked up Senate seats in states from Kansas to Texas, where few expected them to. At least one foreign-policy file could come out of the wave stronger rather than more divided. […]

John Mearsheimer is a world-famous professor of political science at the University of Chicago. He is a bitter critic of Israel. He offers a strong and severe indictment of the only civilized nation in the Middle East. It is well-written. It is erudite. It uses all sorts of big words. There is only one thing […]

Alice Cooper is a rock ’n’ roll oddity. If you’re at all familiar with his macabre onstage persona, the notion that he’s not normal even by the standards of rock stars seems obvious enough. What’s not so obvious is the way his cultural influence has been felt. What makes him a true oddity is that […]

Somewhere above the Atlantic Ocean, I am writing these words on my way to Israel, thinking about a journey that was supposed to take place nearly 60 years ago. In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. planned to lead thousands of black Americans on a historic pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The Six-Day War disrupted […]