James Kirchick

The unquestioned greatest bard of gay life has for decades been writing some of the finest fiction of our time, good enough in fact to make us forget labels.

The politician had a rare quality: the ability to admit he was wrong. After a surprise armed attack on America, he ultimately realized that the world is not zero-sum.

Having gone to such lengths to preserve their privileges, the generals are unlikely to let ZANU-PF lose its grip over something so pedestrian as a free and fair election.

From hard-lefties like Black Panthers and the ‘Dirtbag Left’ to liberals named Clinton and Kennedy and Weinstein, the long line of men who talk one way but behave another.

Trump is a proven disaster, but that doesn’t mean he’s going away. We need competent people to serve in his administration—and exert enough control to keep us all from crashing.

In its more honorable past, the AFL-CIO was staunchly anti-communist. But now, the same union is toasting a Cuban emissary. What gives?

Sure, Trump’s a disaster, but Germany--pacifist, self-dealing, and self-righteous--is hardly the candidate to fill the Trumpian vacuum.

Like the ‘singers,’ Trump wants to hoard the glory of his stunning electoral upset all to himself.

When Britain sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us.

Agree with them or not, Republicans have historically been very clear about how they talk about our allies and our adversaries. That’s out the window now. But no one says a peep.