"Things fall apart, the center cannot hold," wrote Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919 as he contemplated the post-war world with dread. For anyone on the lookout for evidence that America's political center has disintegrated, 2023 was a banner year, with a bumper crop of proof that a ...

WILMERDING, Pa. — By July of this year, the last man on the job here at the Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation will, in all likelihood, turn around as he reaches the threshold of the same front door hundreds of thousands of workers have passed through since the 1890s. For the ...

Dr. Claudine Gay has resigned as president of Harvard University. A tepid nonresponse to congressional questioning about opposing antisemitism and calls for genocide of Jewish people on college campuses was enough to doom Liz Magill, former president of the University of Pennsylvania. But Dr. ...

I've been playing a lot of bridge lately — the card game, that is — on my tablet in bed at night. It's a good way to wind down, and it's also less depressing than Twitter, which is basically the pit of Sarlacc at this point: You get thrown into it and you're digested alive for 1,000 ...

To explain the latest young generation's pessimism, Washington Post opinion writer Taylor Lorenz took to what was then called Twitter last February to lament "the fact that we're living in a late stage capitalist hellscape during an ongoing deadly pandemic w record wealth inequality, 0 social ...

When Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley answered a question last week in which she stated that the American Civil War was fought over "government," "rights" and "freedoms," she was correct. Yet, like most politicians, when she realized that the popular answer should have been ...