“I think we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not,” Joan Didion famously wrote in Slouching Towards Bethlehem. It ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is complaining about the U.S. capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. She ought to be thanking President Trump. Operation Absolute Resolve is diverting ...

Goodbye to all that then. Goodbye to the pretence that we have morals about foreign policy and disapprove of those who force their will on sovereign countries.

On January 3, 2026, without provocation, cause, or legal justification, the U.S. bombed Venezuela, invaded its capital, killed dozens of people, and violently abducted the President and First Lady of ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - It's officially Christmas time here in the Christmas City! It's really the kickoff to the holiday season," said Ron Semanick, a Bethlehem resident. Every year, the city hosts its ...

Happy New Year. It’s Monday, and the biggest name in American tech is hard at work, X-posting about that famed judgment day of AI, when we behold machines that dwarf our own puny cognitive ...

Jews celebrating Hanukkah were just slaughtered by Muslim gunmen on an Australian beach, in an imitation of the Oct. 7 massacres. An inert Europe is canceling Christmas celebrations out of fear of ...

Jews celebrating Hanukkah were just slaughtered by Muslim gunmen on an Australian beach, in an imitation of the October 7 massacres. An inert Europe is canceling Christmas celebrations out of fear of ...

Thousands flocked to Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas for the first time since the implementation of the U.S.-brokered Israel-Hamas peace deal. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who has served as the ...

Thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem’s Manger Square on Christmas Eve as families there and at other sites across the Holy Land heralded a much-needed boost of holiday spirit, after two years of ...

Thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem’s Manger Square on Christmas Eve as families heralded a much-needed boost of holiday spirit. The giant Christmas tree that was absent during the Israel-Hamas ...

Palestinian Christians are reviving their seasonal public celebrations, hoping to bring light and holiday spirit at the end of a gloomy year in the West Bank. By Fatima AbdulKarim Reporting from ...