It was with no apparent sense of irony that Jimmy Carter’s 1976 campaign autobiography was titled Why Not the Best? That very question would come up with increasing frequency in the years after Cart ...

Inept president, great ex-president? President Carter secured the Camp David Peace Accords, SALT II nuclear treaty, mental ...

By Trip Gabriel Richard W. Murphy, a diplomat whose colorful career included serving as ambassador to three Arab countries and as an assistant secretary of state in the 1980s — when he was the ...

Immediately after the handshake between Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1993, Palestinian scholar Edward Said wrote: “Now that the euphoria has faded a little, we can take a ...

The former chief rabbi claimed that even those who are not yeshiva students should avoid military service. The Prime Minister's Office condemned the statement.

Last week, the UK chief of defence, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, warned us that we are at the dawn of a third nuclear age. He misses the point. The nuclear threat is deadly, but it is our ...

“He’s our Picasso,” the actor said of Bob Dylan. By Kathryn Shattuck It has been more than four decades since an Armani-clad Richard Gere slunk around Los Angeles in Paul Schrader’s ...

By Carly Thomas Associate Editor It’s safe to say Richard Curtis wasn’t a huge fan of Love Actually postproduction. The writer-director of the beloved 2003 holiday rom-com recently told ...

Forty-five years after Paul Schrader immortalized Richard Gere as an “American Gigolo,” he’s cast him again as a rather run-of-the-mill American cad. “Oh, Canada,” a stiff and cerebral ...

Alexia Nixon of Weymouth — Lexi to those who knew her — died at Boston Medical Center, the Norfolk district attorney’s office said Wednesday. Nixon was in the passenger’s seat of a SUV ...

After he failed to steal a car, four men beat and held down serial killer Richard Ramirez until police arrived Bettmann/ Getty For over a year, a serial killer terrorized Los Angeles — until its ...