Sarcasm, farce, irony, metaphor, and above all “mocking”. These are the tools of great literature and great writers who give ...

New releases this week include a feminist history of modern Russia, and a candid portrait of Gish Jen's relationship with her ...

A few thousand protesters demonstrated against the administration of President Donald Trump on Saturday during one of several Michigan-based "No Kings" rallies, which were held simultaneously ...

Branching plots and dark humor animate “Eye of the Monkey,” set in an unnamed dystopian country. By Rebecca Makkai Rebecca Makkai is the author, most recently, of “I Have Some Questions for You,” and ...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Within weeks of their publication in July 1776, those words spread around the world. In August, a London newspaper reprinted ...

Other peoples have risen. Other peoples have risen up to defend their rights, their dignity, and their democracies. In the past 50 years, they’ve done it in Poland, South Africa, Lebanon, South Korea, ...

Democratic Party leadership is way out of touch with where the American people are, and it’s almost frightening to see the kind of anger and contempt that people feel toward it. Poll after poll in ...

Rachel Maddow knows a thing or two about “how you can tell when the government’s going real bad.” Since negotiating a multimillion-dollar deal to host her MSNBC news show only one night a week, she’s ...

It is hard to see what kind of political career Kamala Harris will ever have again. This makes her unique among recently vanquished major-party nominees — barring a remarkable shift in circumstances, ...

President Donald Trump reportedly contacted Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado on Friday to congratulate her on her win, according to Bloomberg. Bloomberg’s reporting cited ...

The heavily armed agents carrying out President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement push in Chicago are often masked. The man leading them is not. Nearly three decades into his career ...

Chief Border Patrol agent Gregory Bovino unloaded on Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker Wednesday, responding to the Democrat's claim that the Trump administration launched an "unconstitutional invasion" of ...