Among the reckonings necessary in the wake of Trump’s reelection is jettisoning the notion that patriotism and democracy are synergistic.

Americans have come to know the inaugural address as a patriotic standard, where incoming presidents hold court on civic virtue and set forth a vision of American exceptionalism. From Lincoln’s ...

Tom Wilson was the first of Alex Ovechkin’s teammates to see the unfamiliar sight Monday. Wilson’s night had ended a few minutes early, after he received a five-minute fighting major for a ...

And this January 2020-set thriller revels in the existential panic of a world going off the rails. (Friedlich may as well ...

“Oh, God,” purred the Iranian, “I’m so happy to have some people!” We paused our frantic cross-table whispering as a member ...

Women’s Voices commentator Heather McIlvaine-Newsad suffered an unexpected tragedy at the start of the year. She says her ...

In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries ...

The new looseness of whiteness turned out to have crucial advantages. Unmooring race from a definite place made whiteness an imagined community into which new populations, such as Irish and ...

But the mind sometimes seems to pull people away, unmooring them in time. That can be a distraction—causing someone to pay less attention to, say, an ongoing conversation—or part of a harmful ...

Inside the dream: the cinema of David Lynch, who passed away in mid-January, is almost unique in its hypnotic ability to ...