The importance of exposing students to the many truths about the controversial explorer

David Ignatius calls for reconciliation among Iraqi Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds. But this oversimplifies the bargain that needs to be struck.

What romance can teach us about the right way to wage war

Would politics be more efficient, The City of Conversation asks, if legislators were forced to socialize with each other again?

Incarcerated people voted in primaries in Vermont, Puerto Rico, and Maine. Why can’t they vote anywhere else?

The Smithsonian’s new memorial of African American history and culture is at once triumphant and crushing.

It’s the best of America, and its future is uncertain.

The 19th-century writer believed that the power of poetry and democracy came from an ability to make a unified whole out of disparate parts.

A breast-cancer survivor’s unlikely therapy for people looking to return to life before chemo

Assad is proving that the international taboo against chemical weapons is effectively a sham.