Any American troubled that our troubled American democracy seems unable to fix its troubles — and what conscientious citizen is not? — can take heart, lots of it, at the rescue work being done by the U.S. House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, the coup-that-almost-was. The Jan. 6 committee’s…

Someday, in that New Day, when America has recovered its conscience and grown to maturity; when as the world’s oldest democracy, a project in self-governance, we finally govern ourselves properly; when even the hardest of hardline gun rights advocates sicken on the rivers of blood unloosed by their fetish and…

Abortion is every woman’s concern and every feminist’s issue. We feminists, the advocates of the species, array ourselves along a spectrum on the issue of abortion — over viability of the fetus, over religious injunction, over access to the procedure, over restrictions to access. …

Civilians tortured, executed, decapitated, with children not excepted. Refugees not allowed safe passage, but bombed or disappeared. Rape reintroduced as an instrument of war. Non-military targets bombed to pulverization — apartment buildings, hospitals, schools, theatres. Whole cities razed. The landscape seeded with landmines. All this atrocity and decimation was, until…

Why? Why, when a mother and child are commanded To come out from their basement shelter and surrender, Only to be shot for their compliance; Why, when suburban dads are shot, on the mere suspicion that They may have, once upon a time, served in their nation’s military; Why, when…

All the world is fixed on Vladimir Putin’s audacious attack on Ukraine — universally seen as an attack on the liberal, democratic, rules-based international order, whose institutions have, by and large, furnished the norms and kept the peace since the end of World War II. Europeans, because they live in…

How unfortunate — absurd, really — that President Joe Biden is taking extreme heat for making a moral point about Vladimir Putin’s war crimes in Ukraine — the horrific war crimes occurring before, during, and since the speech Mr. …

How remarkable that an ordinary guy meets his historic moment in such extraordinary way. Volodymyr Zelensky treads that path: The former comic actor whose character’s rantings against government corruption propelled real-life Zelensky into his country’s presidency, now — beyond all things performative or political — leads his country, Ukraine, in…

“Lessons learned” come later — Too soon, the “lessons learned” from Vladimir Putin’s ongoing war in Ukraine come tumbling forth — as if Ukraine were already lost, as if it were just another case study in the fate of small nations in big-power politics. Example: “What Democracy’s Advocates Can Learn from Ukraine,” at The Atlantic…