President Warren G. Harding once urged the American people to "strive for production as Babe Ruth strives for home runs." In Gish Jen's inventive but muddled dystopian novel The Resisters, production ...

This column was written by Will Di Novi. Former Private Kimberly Rivera is a long way from home. Since moving to Toronto with her family a year and a half ago, the 26-year-old Iraq War veteran and ...

2023 marked the 100th anniversary of the country's oldest secular pacifist organization, the War Resisters League. Also, a new film opened in November about Bayard Rustin, who organized the 1963 Great ...

Gish Jen has always had something of a "Frank Capra-esque" view of America. Like Capra, who directed immortal Hollywood films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life, Jen's big ...

In an era of extremist government, there may be something to be learned from an extreme devotion to political beliefs. The memory is vague, perhaps implanted. It may only exist because my mother has ...

Illustration by Gluekit for TIME; Hashomer Hatzair Archives, Moreshet Collection; National Hannie Schaft Foundation; Alamy(2) Historians who hail the heroes of World War II typically focus on soldiers ...

The passing of Jimmy Carter has been duly noted in ubiquitous remembrances and commentaries on his four-year presidency, 1977-1981. Carter is lauded more for his post-presidential humanitarian ...

The IRS is easing up a bit on War Tax Resisters. Unlike other tax protesters, who come up with whacky theories about being "sovereign citizens" or writing "nunc pro tunc" on their returns, War Tax ...

The food is very good, much better than the food that I paid for at the University of Chicago. The beds are clean, and you are given a change of linen once a week. You can change your underwear and ...