Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Is it just my imagination or are women wreaking more evil than usual these ...

Words. What are they? Are they simply a collection of letters arranged in a particular way to symbolize places, things, ideas, feelings, people and the like so that people can communicate with one ...

(left to right) Pershon Harper, Kellan Oelkers, and Rose James (Photo: Joey Miller) Do you know the origins of the word “assassination” or the spell “Double, double, toil and trouble”? Like many ...

Halloween is upon us. As the fake furry spiders and cotton-woolish ersatz webs proliferate, what should really scare us is injudicious use of dry ice in decorative pseudo-cauldrons and elsewhere. A ...

For this round of One Night Stand Theater, the folks who put together the dramatic readings and short stagings of play scenes decided to tackle the theme Witches Brew — with an all-female cast. “We’ve ...

For nine years, we have watched Donald Trump demolish every norm of political conduct and rhetoric. Some have been appalled; others see it as part of his appeal. Tuesday night’s debate between Trump ...