She co-founded The Free Press as a bastion of liberalism in an illiberal time. Her arrival at CBS is paved with excuses for illiberal friends.

America has always had a strong aversion to seeing the military on the country’s streets. That is not stopping the current president.

Am I a bad person for being weary of people talking about God as if everyone else in the conversation believes in their particular deity? I’m thinking of declarations such as “God moves in mysterious ...

In a new book, the sportswriter Jane Leavy spitballs with some of the greats about how to make the American pastime more appealing.

Walden became the foundational text for the aesthetic strand of the American environmental movement. Its emphasis on nature’s ...

Thousands of African Americans fought for the British—then fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement.

Benedict Arnold had been growing hunkier all afternoon. Incarnated, at the moment, by Cameron Green, the director of interpretation at historic Fort Ticonderoga, Arnold had spent much of this May ...

At a congressional oversight hearing yesterday, the attorney general followed her north star: pleasing the president.

Editor’s Note: This article is part of “The Unfinished Revolution,” a project exploring 250 years of the American experiment. Patrick Henry is generally treated as a second-string Founding Father. He ...

As one associate noted, William Franklin had, by his late 20s, become his father’s “friend, his brother, his intimate and easy companion.” Franklin raised his son with all the advantages he had not ...

The Trump administration is culling the best and brightest from the federal workforce for a rounding error’s worth in savings.

YG then called in artillery strikes. We watched as the first one struck about 20 yards from the trees where the Russians were hiding. The second landed on the opposite side but almost as far away, ...