Four cardinals demand answers from stonewalling Pope Francis

The faculty and administration gather in a Diversity Circle to contemplate their navels Trump’s victory

Three cheers for left-wing writers trying to slap some sense into their own side

There are undoubtedly “U.S. fingerprints” on the bombing campaign, but there is more to it than that.

He’s the first president coming into office affirming same-sex marriage

Moonlight doesn’t seem like a film conservatives would like, but they should watch it anyway.

Trump’s bad foreign policy judgment extends to trusting in the faulty judgment of hard-liners that have been consistently wrong about most things for the last fifteen years.

The author of The Handmaid’s Tale is no statist ideologue.

On the prospects that the left will learn a lesson about its cultural politics

For veterans, the atomized civilian world can be more disorienting than the close-knit realm of combat.

A storm anyone looking should have known was coming

Trump as the new Constantine, heralding the end of a secular era?

Trump clearly doesn’t understand what the nuclear deal does, and he doesn’t grasp that it is doing exactly what it is intended to do.

Americans are setting off into uncharted territory. We needed to do that.

The president-elect represents a new chapter in American politics—and the end of dismal old one.

Hooked on feelings, with no reason and no plans.

When the modern political party system undergoes reconstruction, the results could reinvigorate liberal democracy—or bury it.

Jonathan Haidt offers a key to this election’s results

A first step toward piecing together what the heck just happened.

What I’ll be looking for

Pope Francis has harsh words for Latin Mass enthusiasts, but warm ones for Marxists

The people do have a voice.

Trump has obvious political incentives to repudiate one of Obama’s signature policies.

A congregation effectively disfellowships an elderly Republican, because Trump

National interest builds a new foreign-policy coalition.

I am not audacious enough to be hopeful

An ex-NYT editor shares insight into how and why the paper got the Trump story wrong

The result is a stinging rebuke to Obama.

A Trump foreign policy will probably be highly unilateralist, preoccupied with terrorism and Iran, and fixated mostly on the Middle East.

Frightened geneticist unnerved by prospect of race of Morlock Trumpkins

Win or lose, the Middle American Radicals aren’t going anywhere.