On Wednesday night, the Democrats' leader tried again to rally the faithful. He did not do as he did the day before, i.e., claiming he went to a historically black college (he did not) or that his son died in Iraq (he did not) or that he met the inventor of insulin (he did not) or that war in ...

Lawsuits against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina are exposing the crude and dehumanizing racial sorting that goes on in the admissions offices at elite universities. The application form asks young people to check a box identifying themselves as either "(1) Asian, (2) ...

Republicans want to take over Congress and come Tuesday they might get their wish. Assuming they win both the House and Senate, they will face enormous challenges: a country still heading into a recession, inflation still high and rising, government deficits and debt as far as the eye can see, ...

Electric cars sales are up 66% this year. President Joe Biden promotes them, saying things like, "The great American road trip is going to be fully electrified" and, "There's no turning back." To make sure we have no choice in the matter, some left-leaning states have moved to ban ...

There's power in a "no." Just ask the Greeks, who celebrate the word every year, on Oxi Day, Oct. 28. It's a day created in honor of the Greeks' most famous "no," the one given to Benito Mussolini's ambassador after he ordered Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas to let the Italian army ...

Turn on MSNBC or open The Washington Post these days and you'll find pundits declaring the pending end of American democracy. Voters voting for Republicans will bring democracy crashing down. We have arrived at peak hysteria for the midterms. Katherine Fung documented in Newsweek in August, ...