Politicians and lawyers are much like actors, performing for impressionable audiences in order to achieve an immediate goal at a particular moment. Why is this concept so difficult for some journalists to grasp?

Did you ever wonder how pundits like Charles Krauthammer and Peggy Noonan can possibly know what all Americans are thinking and feeling? So did I, until my phone rang last week.

A Baltimore mother was lionized for beating up her teenage son when she spotted him at a protest demonstration. And the lesson is….

Most of us tiptoe cautiously through life. BSR's prolific contributor Patrick D. Hazard spent 88 years gleefully violating boundaries and pushing his envelope in all sorts of unpredictable directions.

What’s a nonideological presidential candidate to do when everyone’s asking, “What does Hillary stand for?” Turn to BSR for advice, that’s what.

Was World War I inevitable? How about the Holocaust? The Civil War? The world’s great tragedies may seem preordained in retrospect, but Margaret MacMillan reminds us that they might very easily never have happened at all, just as you and I might easily have never existed either.

In Sam Katz’s new documentary about the American Revolution, the God-like catalysts are neither Moses nor Jesus but homegrown miracle workers like James Logan and Benjamin Franklin, and especially the angry masses at society’s bottom.

Indiana’s new "religious objections" law exempts businesses from servicing same-sex marriages if doing so would violate the business owners’ religious beliefs. How could this exemption play out? Let us count the ways.

Today’s great threat to humanity, we are told, comes from robots and algorithms, which will throw most of us out of work while enslaving us to machines. But whose humanity flourished back in the good old pre-robotic days when most people worked on assembly lines or in coal mines?

A federal judge says SEPTA can’t reject ads disparaging Islam. He thinks he’s striking a blow for free speech. But who will strike a blow for all those captive commuters who’ll be unwillingly subjected to this bigotry after a hard day at the office?