The nine Africans proved to be one of the most popular attractions at the fair, where the crowds gawked, jeered and at one point threw mud pies at the human exhibit. From St. Louis, the group ...

In 1985, when I was in the midst of a 12-year struggle to write my first novel, I had the good fortune to be invited to the Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony in Austerlitz, N.Y., for a monthlong ...

In 1985, when I was in the midst of a 12-year struggle to write my first novel, I had the good fortune to be invited to the Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony in Austerlitz, N.Y., for a monthlong ...

Basest instincts: Donald Trump’s apology sounds like a rapist saying “she asked for it” Will Trump’s lewd comments and "apology" even hurt him with his racist, misogynist "basket of ...

My compulsion to judge other people wanes with age. The older I get, the less I wag my finger. I don’t delude myself into thinking I’m wiser or better. I don’t assume I’d necessarily make ...

They are just human, after all, susceptible to all the basest instincts of human nature. Mass marketing, assisted by social media, shows us how pervasively the gun industry turns gun purchasers ...

While zombies are culture’s way of facing our basest and most primitive instincts, evil geniuses probe the same baseness combined with man’s proudest attribute, intellect. Like the zombie, he’s driven ...

Instead of protesting, they preferred to protect their political fortunes, play to the basest part of their base and remain meekly mute. They lack spine. Trump took them all.

Donald Trump and his government appointees are appealing to the basest fears and anxieties of our citizens for political gain. Donald Trump should feel ashamed. We are better than this.

I will add that my sense of loss may be greater than Martin's since I am old enough to have vague memories of the pre-1960 Republican Party. If the old guys had kept control, I could imagine being ...

Recently, Philip Martin wrote asking what had happened to the old Republican Party--the good one that represented the economic elite, but did so with concern for national interest, respect for ...