When I watched Petra Costa’s Oscar-nominated 2019 documentary The Edge of Democracy, it was impossible not to be struck by the similarities between her native Brazil’s slide toward authoritarianism ...

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It’s not every day that a political leader talking about the state of U.S. democracy is able to hit two tricky notes at the ...

It seems that investors in the Moscow exchange were expecting Trump to lay down harsher measures than he did. The deputy ...

A few weeks ago, I left my 3-year-old daughter “Tanya” with my brother “Brian” for the afternoon while I attended a ...

The order is legal trash, violating the Constitution in ways that are astonishingly obvious to anyone who has experience ...

My stepsister is very close with her father but strongly dislikes my mother (now his wife) and me for “replacing” her own ...

My wife, “Nancy,” and I are at odds over something that is the result of pure paranoia on her part.

My best friend, “Cecilia,” and I have known each other since middle school. Way back then, I told Cecilia that I wanted to ...

My mother gets very angry, often irrationally. She’s also become quite paranoid. She is one of those people that’s always ...

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“Fudge it,” I said aloud. Toyless, I marched myself to the counter and bought a Kit Kat. In the car, I pulled a crisp $20 ...