“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” — Marcel Proust Nostalgia, a term that originated as a medical diagnosis for Swiss mercenaries suffering from homesickness, is the sorrowful longing for a lost past. An April Pew survey found that ...

What is meant by “affordable housing”? The term suggests a certain level of shelter at a moderate price but offers no details. That makes it irritating. The question really is: Who can’t afford what kind of house? A new study insists that half of New York City households can’t afford ...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre recently used a word that seems to have disappeared from our anything goes culture. Asked to comment on transgender activist Rose Montoya, who posted on social media “a video of herself and two others going topless for a time” at a Pride ...

If there’s one thing worse than a crooked tyrant, it’s an unpatriotic crooked tyrant, and with the unsealing of the detailed 44-page indictment handed down against him by a federal grand jury in Miami last week, one thing is clear: former President Donald Trump checks all the boxes. Trump, ...

What will Republican voters make of Trump’s federal indictment? There have already been polls, but they are too early to mean much. Voters’ reactions will be influenced by Republican leaders and media personalities. For the past eight years, “influencers” have rallied around Trump. The ...

An unusual metabolism must propel Vivek Ramaswamy’s rapid-fire fluency during peripatetic campaigning. And something keeps him slender while not counting calories, as at last Sunday’s brunch of huevos rancheros followed by a hamburger topped with a fried egg. The first Republican ...