When Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office for his second term, his promise was clear—no new wars. But things didn't go as ...

President Donald J. Trump has never wavered in his stance that Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon — a pledge he has made repeatedly, both in office and on the campaign trail. Within the ...

From the St. John to St. Matthew Passion, contemporary arrangements of Bach masterpieces at the Leipzig Bach Festival highlight oppression and conflict.

Trump is proving me wrong, but not consistently. When he leans into ideology, he swerves into unforced errors. When he’s ...

Democracies tend to sleep until the jarring gong of danger wakes them up” is a favorite Churchill quote of Prime Minister ...

Fake quotes are easy to tweet. Truth is harder to live." That's not something Pope Leo XIV actually said -- but you might believe it, given how many false attributions have gone viral since his ...

After an appeal for a case about free speech was rejected, Justice Samuel Alito harkened back nearly two decades.

India over-predicted its gains in war; we may be doing so with our likely gains in peace. There is a questionable new self-belief that war has magically changed us by instilling unity and ...

The heroism of peace and restraint It takes little courage to fan the flames of war when a nation’s blood is boiling. The true courage lies in dousing those flames, in absorbing the anger and ...

Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace is a classic novel set against Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion of Russia. Here are a few its thought-provoking quotes. “Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved!