Through mourning we bury the dead. But we also raise them from the dead, transfigured by our mutual forgiveness. More

In rationalizing Islam, Islamists lost the ability to think beyond modernity’s assumptions. More

What the U.S. jettisons, its ­rival—China—will pick up. International politics abhors a vacuum. More

Should Americans affirm drug use as a public good, or maintain that getting high violates the social contract? More