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

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

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

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

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 ...

On Friday, the phrase scientifically justified appeared several times in a statement by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya that ...

Charlie Calkins grew up in a big extended family. We’re talking about nearly 30 cousins—some of whom had their own kids. When ...

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

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

Peter Parnell is a Broadway and Off Broadway playwright and TV writer. In October, he will receive the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Bravery in Literature.

Justin Richardson is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and the director of the university’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. In October, he will ...

Spike Lee loves fanfare. So many of the films in the director’s career begin with some sort of rousing opening-credits ...