In 2007, Ed Todd wrote about "Christmas-lore's enduring newspaper essay." We have republished it in honor of the man who penned so many great stories about the depth of the human spirit.

There are many reasons one might come to love one’s country. It first appears in the connection to place, a bond to a physical ...

D aniel Patrick Moynihan, who died in 2003, might be remembered most for his erudition. During his 25 years in the Senate, ...

The day, honored each Dec. 10, marks the anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

This decision is only one of the ways that the Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has been chipping away at the parts ...

Writers, activists and politicians on the books they turn to for wisdom and perspective – and to restore their faith in human nature ...

Did the 21st century begin on 1 January 2000? Or was it that blue sky day in September 2001 when the planes hit the twin towers? These images from the last 25 years chronicle modern history in the mak ...

A tribute to Nation family we lost this year—from Jules Feiffer to Joshua Clover, Elizabeth Pochoda, Bill Moyers, and Peter and Cora Weiss ...

The late Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, saw in Ta-Nehisi Coates a man who filled the ...

Arizona is home to sweeping mountain and desert vistas, gorgeous sunsets, the occasional haboob — and a lot of literary ...

One estimate by an engineer in SCU forecasts that given 300 "actual" UAP sightings per year — and assuming random distribution of sightings — that with 930 automated camera systems distributed across ...

Then Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News, pulled it.