A Year in Reading What Is Somaliland, and Do We Have to Care About It? The wars that someone’s ancestors fought in are beside the point. Responding to internet-driven debates of late over American ...

C onservatism has been tagged as not a body of thought but a series of “irritable mental gestures.” No matter which is the more accurate description, as a holiday exercise I decided to put together ...

Eephus mourns America’s last baseball game.

Brian T. Allen, art critic E Is for Edward, a centennial celebration of the work of Edward Gorey, reminds us that savants still wander the Earth. “I’ve been murdering children in my books for years,” ...

T his year brought an abundance of good books, and I use the word “abundance” under advisement. After 2025, I can say with no fear of contradiction that I am fully up to speed on the topic. As a ...

A Chinese crypto kingpin, a libertarian cyber hero, and a Honduran drug lord all benefitted from Trump’s largesse this year.

What Is Somaliland, and Do We Have to Care About It? France’s Populist Surge Is a Cautionary Tale for America’s Right Trump Targets the Islamic State in Nigeria The Iranian people are at the end of ...

The Trump administration has cited the Somali fraud case as an example of why the U.S. needs to mass deport illegal immigrants.

One of the reasons Trump is apparently convinced that Putin wants peace is that Russian military forces have not yet bombed the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant . . . which Russian military forces ...

J ust before Christmas, Ben Sasse, who served as a United States senator from Nebraska between 2015 and 2023, announced that he has an advanced case of cancer and he's going to die soon.