Greetings and welcome to this 36th episode of the Carnival of Fools! This may be the last one we stage in this dusty old theater, as mysterious foreign donors have just offered to upgrade the Carnival ...

The winner, WFB announced with unfeigned delight, was Sam Tanenhaus and he had won the sweepstakes for two reasons: First, he had written a book about Whittaker Chambers that WFB had admired. And ...

For one thing, the plane is a potential security threat, given all of the possible places to hide listening devices within a jumbo jet. Assuming that issue could be dealt with through an extensive ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected by the College of Cardinals to succeed the late Pope Francis on Thursday, taking the papal name Pope Leo XIV.

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could begin enforcing the ban while litigation plays out in lower courts.

Lashkar-e-Taiba, listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States, is the Islamist group accused of plotting attacks in India and in the West, including the three-day assault on Mumbai ...

The move comes after NPR CEO Katherine Maher admitted before Congress that the outlet was wrong in refusing to cover the Biden laptop story.

The attorneys general emphasized the importance of awarding the human trafficking hotline grant to an organization willing to cooperate with law enforcement by sending forward tips from the public.

Scott Bessent, Treasury secretary in the second Trump administration, just published a piece in the Wall Street Journal that reads more like campaign spin than sound economic analysis or strategy. In ...

Joe Nocera writes about how the cold, heartless ‘neoliberals’ took over American economic policy in the 1990s and have been proven wrong by Trump.

The pope has eleven distinct jobs, and the cardinals may not be focused on the jobs that get the most press.

The ruling was issued in response to an emergency appeal and will remain in place only until the issue is decided in lower courts.