International recognition will do as much to rebuke Hamas’s maximalist demands as it will those of the Israeli right, dealing ...

The meeting at the White House today yielded little progress toward peace—but it could have been far worse.

Kate Riley’s perceptive debut novel, Ruth, depicts the life of a woman in a repressive sect without an ounce of sanctimony.

I was bewildered that The Tale of Genji had such a hold on me at this particular moment: It is a wild, confounding work that many consider to be the first novel ever written, by a mysterious woman ...

That’s what autocrats do. They cow public servants into submission—and in doing so, they create a closed system that is free of opposing views and inconvenient concerns. Their policy making, their ...

Trump appeared to treat the peace negotiation as basically a series of steps to be completed, while his counterparts were ...

A couple of years ago, our picture book was pulled from library shelves in Florida. Now an evolving legal strategy threatens others like it.

Letting schools pay revenue-generating athletes is long overdue. If that means letting squash and water polo die, so be it.

The setting, as it so often is when Trump piles into a car with his thoughts and then goes full Thelma & Louise off a ...

So I’m going to say: Yes, you should check up on this grisly old boy, this diminished antagonist. You should be kind to him.

Memory change is not always a part of normal aging, with more than 7 million adults living with Alzheimer’s disease in the ...

The book and the sword descended intertwined from Heaven,” the ancient rabbis declared. Together they do not guarantee ...