How ironic that the crisis confronting the British monarchy, sparked by the former Prince Andrew’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, has occurred on the 145th anniversary of the death of the man in part ...

"We must stop being the stupid party." So Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal told Republicans assembled at the winter meeting of the Republican National Committee last week. Breaking the stupidity habit, ...

Will the British prime minister who has been described as “an adventurer addicted to romance and careless about facts” please stand up? The same prime minister who had first made his reputation as a ...

When Benjamin Disraeli was 12 years old, his family converted from Judaism to Christianity. Yet the Christian convert who became the United Kingdom's first (and, to date, only) prime minister with a ...

Over one hundred days after leaving office, former Prime Minister Liz Truss unveiled the autopsy of her forty-nine days in power. Blaming “a very powerful economic establishment” for the failure of ...

AS AMERICA’S first black president, Barack Obama’s place in history is assured. In the few days since he has left the White House, tributes have deemed him “one of the greatest presidents of all time” ...

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