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

Twenty-four years after 9/11, New York City elected a 34-year-old whose biography reads like a Marxist coming-of-age novel ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan speech and his Nobel Prize acceptance speech have generated considerable discussion about the old dispute between realists and idealists in foreign policy. The ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...