People crowded shoulder to shoulder upstairs in a south Alabama coffee shop, in a region sometimes called the reddest in the heavily conservative state.

The British diplomat and novelist, Harold Nicholson, tossed off an essay in 1929 containing a short riff on the three great capitals of Europe. “London is an old lady in black lace and diamonds who guards her secrets with dignity,” while “Paris is the woman in the prime of life to whom one would only […]

Two months before the midterm elections, the Republican Party has a problem. No, it’s not its record, which is strong. And no, it’s not the Democrats, who are weaker than the coverage claims, drowning under the dead weight of a deepening socialist wing that is taking over.  The problem is that Republicans haven’t yet successfully […]

Every few weeks, millions of Americans open their digital inboxes. They look through physical mail to discover a document written in dense, formal language. The notice informs them that they belong to a legal class. They are a group of citizens collectively wronged by a business entity. Perhaps a tech platform leaked personal data. A […]