The West Wing, a popular political drama, has given us some of the most memorable moments that define American idealism ...

The Elders’ support for South Africa’s National Health Insurance (NHI)Governance, corruption, and funding flaws in South ...

Americans are sickened of an “idealism that is oblique, confusing, dishonest, and ferocious,” as H.L. Mencken wrote a hundred years ago. Though Mencken was condemning President Woodrow Wilson, the ...

Sometimes, when I see the headlines from Europe about Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party victory, and the rise of far-left and far-right parties across the continent, I begin to think that idealism is ...

Americans are raised to revere idealism, the civic religion of contemporary democracy. If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, idealism may be the first. Permitting presidents to anoint ...

The apartment where I work overlooks a small, alternative high school in Boulder, Colorado. I look out onto the football field and see a young woman flip her hair to the side. Even her roots shine.

The votes have been cast, and a vaccine is on the horizon. We now find ourselves in the twilight days of Donald Trump’s presidency and perhaps “the end of the beginning” or maybe even “the beginning ...

One hundred employees of Gawker, the online media site, have voted by a 3-1 margin to unionize. The Writers Guild of America will represent them. Nick Denton, Gawker’s owner, is apparently confused or ...

When the first Earth Day celebration was held 45 years ago this month, I was a vaguely idealistic sophomore in college, interested like many of my fellow students in environmental issues. I spent that ...