The Congress party’s spokesperson joins a long list of journalists, activists, and politicians detained for criticizing Modi and his government. Members of India’s opposition Congress party ...

Americans like to believe that domestic politics stops at the “water’s edge,” but it doesn’t, it never has and it shouldn’t. Criticizing the other side’s foreign policy–as ...

Amy Poehler is widely beloved inside and outside of show business for good reason. She’s one of the most fearless, anarchic performers in “Saturday Night Live” history and the open-hearted ...

This intense prickliness stems from powerlessness: the feeling (all too justified in Poland’ s case) of having been silenced by history. That was once an excuse, but, thank goodness, is now an ...

A virus-like fever of political prickliness has been spreading like Covid-19 itself. After long and tense negotiations culminating in a trade deal last December, there was some hope that Britain's ...

Paloma Josse (Garance Le Guillermic), the blasé narrator of Mona Achache's film "The Hedgehog," is a precociously articulate 11-year-old girl from an upper-class Parisian family who sneaks around ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Scott is a Bostonian and a Mormon with good insights into Romney and his milieu, but he too puzzles over this prickliness issue for more than two hundred pages. Whatever its source—whether personality ...

It’s very early in his residency with the Jets organization, but, at the very least, Isaak Philips will add a layer of prickliness to the back-end depth within the organization. The Jets ...