Gena Rowlands, whose unvarnished acting abilities placed her in the pantheon of acting legends and who became synonymous with ...

Charismatic figures shaped American politics, even before the republic was founded. The arrival of television made personal charm all the more important for would-be leaders.

We’ve had Jane Austen biopics, biographies, screen adaptations galore. Now, her life story is told graphically, with both ...

States are racing to ban our kids' cell phone use in our schools. That's great. But what about our kids' First Amendment rights?

We tend to think of the US as the atomic bomb’s creators. But we’re ignoring some crucial figures, as Gareth Williams’s ...

The Ramayana in Sanskrit was authored by Valmiki There was no literature meant for commoners prior to the Ramayana Only Vedic literature existed before it That s why Valmiki is referred to as adi kavi ...

In her fascinating history of old age, Winter Dreams, Barbara H Rosenwein extracts lessons on ageing from Sophocles to Jenny ...

Free Speech v. Paxton is a gift to any Democratic politician smart and bold enough to seize it. Republicans in Texas and on ...

On military bases across the globe, books are disappearing from shelves. Posters of historical figures, like Frida Kahlo, are being removed from walls. Black History Month celebrations are being ...

One month after historic marathon floor speech, Sen. Cory Booker announces book The New Jersey Democrat made headlines in April by delivering the country’s longest continuous Senate floor speech ...

The book-banning culture warriors curbing free speech need to wake up to the greater dangers that lurk in the toxic wasteland of the internet.

Harris closed her speech by vowing, “I’m not going anywhere.” Now she just needs to figure out where, exactly, she wants to go.