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Democrats have occupied the White House for 15 of the past 23 years, and Thomas Frank pointedly asks: What do they have to show fo...

Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache...

Until the late 18th century, Shakespeare’s works were known in America only on the page – and not the stage. Felicia Hardison Londré...

Cassandra Clare, creator of the internationally best-selling Mortal Instruments series, now towers as an author of young-adult fan...

For two years, Harvard University social sciences professor Matthew Desmond embedded himself in two poor neighborhoods in Milwauke...

Cote Smith sets his debut novel in the prison town of Leavenworth, Kansas, drawing from his experiences growing up there....

The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special programming surrounding o...

Author Greg Weiner maintains that today’s politically polarized America badly misses Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former president...

Islamism – or political Islam, the movement to infuse Islam in all areas of life – is hardly a 21st century phenomenon. Winston S. Churchill was a...