It is now against the law in California for judges to belong to the Boy Scouts. Welcome to America 2015

Our culture prizes quantification to the detriment of true intimacy.

His mismanagement of the relationship with the U.S. hasn’t cost him or Israel anything.

Our relationship with Saudi Arabia is a depreciating asset – but that doesn’t mean we should simply dump it.

It doesn’t make much sense for Rubio to launch a bid, but he’s doing it anyway.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn speaks to a suffering California teenager

The West’s adversaries have a far clearer understanding of the values they defend.

Netanyahu seems not to have suffered for any of his obnoxious behavior, nor is he likely to.

Billionaire activists like George Soros and Sheldon Adelson exert political influence beyond the dreams of political scientists past.

Studying six forms of belief that go to the heart of our contemporary political understanding.

Rand Paul makes another unforced error.

Would President Obama’s community college plan expand the ranks of college students—or provide a cheaper path for students already aiming for a four-year degree?

Information that comes to us in story form rewires our brains

Progressive social scientists want to help poor people but won’t learn from them.

Knowing who carried out an act of terror doesn’t always tell us who was ultimately behind it.

What growing up as everybody’s punching bag teaches you about power — and friendship

Obama has made it a habit in the last few years to order or threaten military action that isn’t necessary for U.S. or allied security.

Catechesis has failed. Time for something new. How about embracing the weird?

Republicans who resist the president’s other policies are apt to give him a blank check against ISIS.

Scandal and injury aside, the league has made a boring game.

Masscult drives a wedge between grassroots and elite conservatives.

Jeb Bush has no substantive disagreements with how his brother governed while president.

The GOP still hasn’t faced up to what went wrong during his presidency.

The newspaper’s attempt at sensitivity is curiously insensitive to Islam’s actual history.

A less libertarian, more populist UKIP terrifies London’s elite.

Edward Snowden’s actions brought him accusations of treason, and a life of exile.

Whether Romney is ultimately deemed ridiculous or a serious threat, he makes it harder for establishment-acceptable candidates other than Bush to get traction.

Mitt’s Mormon makeup could help him embrace family-friendly reform.

A new biography paints Strauss as a liberal internationalist, neglecting the role of Zionism in his thought and life.