Articles by Robert Zaller

This August marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of what is politely called the Atomic Age, when nuclear bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima…

There is never a good day to die, but everyone’s time comes anyway. It came for John Lewis on July 17, 2020, and it marked…

America was a curious country in the 19th century, attracting such figures as Alexis de Tocqueville, Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling. By the end of…

So, what’s a fellow to do these days? Donald Trump was riding high a few months ago. He had what he liked to call a…

An oft-told tale: Ben Franklin, when asked what kind of government the Founding Fathers had given us after months of secret conclave, famously replied, “A…

A dark wind is blowing through this country, and we can only await what destruction it will finally bring. Before the coronavirus descended on us,…

Donald Trump had the most famous line of the 2016 presidential campaign. He said that he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue…

The historian Joseph J. Ellis defines a political faction succinctly as “an organized minority whose very purpose [is] to undercut the public will, usually by…

Let me begin with a confession: I know nothing about “Star Wars” except that it is a movie franchise created by George Lucas that has…

We weren’t ready for COVID-19, even though we could have been. Donald Trump eliminated the joint task force with China, established to get a quick…