We know of nothing,” Henry James observed in 1875, “that is a better proof of the essential impotence of criticism, in the ...

Panelists joined a special edition of Washington Week With The Atlantic to discuss the state of democracy 250 years after the ...

When David Hockney in the 1960s turned his attention to a photograph of a splash-splattered swimming pool, he did what most ...

To critics who see Trump’s Kennedy Center tenure as ruinous, the ruling suddenly made these changes seem reversible—all the ...

An encounter was an act on behalf of the decent in the face of an indecent world, really; that’s what he’d been telling ...

The most notable thing about President Trump’s South Lawn fight is its curious lack of ambition.

Trump voters don’t care to defend institutions that they see as illegitimate.

The two sides say they are close to an agreement to end a war that has left everyone badly bruised.

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The jet was perhaps the pinnacle of American engineering excellence. Its retirement signals an end to an era of American ...

A spendthrift government is raising borrowing costs for everyone.