CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Emotions may explain why people overreact, but they don’t justify it.

An Iranian author whose bestselling comic novel, “My Uncle Napoleon,” lampooned Persian culture’s self-aggrandizing and paranoid behavior as the country entered the modern era, has died.

The man I knew and adored wouldn’t be like the majority of us, huddling in our trembling silence, terrified of saying what we really think.

The former cultural core of the GOP is exiting the party. The Democrats should keep those voters in their corner. Here’s how to do it.