John Oliver sounded an alarm about billionaire David Ellison’s hiring of Bari Weiss as the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. Oliver devoted the bulk of his monologue on Last Week Tonight to Weiss’s ...

On the last Saturday of August, I began my morning with The New York Times, which carried yet another story about the decline of reading across the country. Over the past two decades, the share of ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. “If we don’t have FREE SPEECH, then we just don’t have a FREE COUNTRY,” ...

On Thursday, August 31, 1837, shortly after noon, 215 members of Harvard University’s prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Society ...

Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts joins other members of the Roberts Court as they pose for a group portrait, at the Supreme Court building October. 7, 2022. Chief Justice Roberts was ...

It has been a long time since books by Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897-1973) were on many bookshelves. Her “Yankee from Olympus” biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes the New York Times obituary called ...

Sir Keir Starmer has been prime minister of the United Kingdom for less than 15 months. Yet he has the air of a beleaguered and embattled leader: His net favorability rating is currently minus-50 — ...

Gabi Dugal McCreery and Scotty McCreery at the 59th Academy of Country Music Awards on May 16, 2024. It’s another Fall baby for Country singer Scotty McCreery. The season 10 American Idol winner ...

The zealous safeguarding of individual expression is a recent innovation. What sparked it? The need to curb violent societal upheaval. As the United States veers toward renouncing its free speech ...

From allowing segregation to gutting abortion rights, the court’s reactionary streak runs deep. A new collection shows why calls for reform are as old as the court itself. The Supreme Court in 1904.

"The View" co-hosts railed against President Donald Trump's administration on Monday while addressing late-night host Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, and avoided criticizing their mutual employer, ABC.