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My kids and I were in a hurry to get to the lake, and I ran into a gas station looking for a hat. My only options living in the Midwest were hats saying “Guns Save Lives” and “Make America Great Again.” The only somewhat subtle hat was an all-black…

The Biden administration has reached its halfway point, and a review of its foreign policy decisions suggests an administration touting the return of diplomacy while failing to meaningfully deliver on this tenet in many ways. The opposite of big-stick diplomacy, Biden and his administration are happy to speak harshly against…

Forgive me for bit of own-horn tooting, but it's not every day that someone as prominent and respected as George Will calls a relative obscure academic's work "potentially 2022's most consequential American book." In other news about Classified, I was a guest on Michael Shermer's podcast. Shermer, as readers may…

If the U.S. wants to reach tipping points in green energy technologies before climate change gets out of control, it would do well to take a page from the Asian playbook on industrial policy.

Also in this week's mailbag: Is Naomi Osaka already a Hall of Famer? And who will be the next American man to win a major?

Not to mention tortoises being left in toilets … A spate of animals has been rejected by American travellers recently, but the UK has a pet problem too

Sephora, Nordstrom, and more brands have signed the Fifteen Percent Pledge—but there's a ways to go.

Despite overwhelming medical evidence that so-called conversion therapy is nothing more than the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity through psychological or spiritual interventions, it remains legal to perform on minors in half the states in America.

CHICAGO — There have been many — hundreds, thousands — of people who have worked for the Chicago Tribune in my long time here. Some remain but the majority have departed ... gone on to play golf, write books, learn a foreign language and have other varied experiences. Only one…