History illuminates the present. I’ve been reading Stephen Kotkin’s widely and justly praised multivolume biography of Joseph Stalin and have encountered many passages that illuminate the present. I learned, for example, that Stalin met the exiled Vladimir Lenin more than a decade before ...
Armelle Bondonga Bradshaw was nervous walking into her final green card interview, but her husband Terrance assured her that it was all going to be fine. They had done everything the U.S. government had asked of them: completed the required medical and financial assessments, gathered their ...
In a year when Democrats have the wind at their backs and a shot at winning even in Texas, primary voters in Michigan have chosen a Senate candidate in Abdul El-Sayed who needlessly alienates many voters. But of all the Republican politicians to criticize El-Sayed, Vice President JD Vance ...
Anna Wintour spent nearly four decades reigning over Vogue magazine. She was chair of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute and its glitzy gala. Wintour is an inspiration for the imperious fashion editor in “The Devil Wears Prada.” With her trademark bob hair, sunglasses and ...
As part of Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada that the administration claims isn’t a trade war, the president has signed an executive order, renaming Lake Ontario, “Lake America.” This follows his renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” These childish antics help no ...
Democrats are in a quandary over the Supreme Court. Every four years, they’ve warned their voters that electing a Republican president will lead to more conservative Supreme Court justices. And yet since Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980 through today, they’ve lost more presidential ...
