The New York representative-elect responded to a report about the holes in his résumé with the worst version of identity politics (and a made-up quote from Winston Churchill).

Ayad Akhtar’s novel “Homeland Elegies” confronts a culture that expects Muslim Americans to explain themselves.

On race, fatherhood, and the many uses of memoir

'The Witch Elm' uses traditional mystery devices to construct a gripping political narrative.

What Alan Grayson's bid to reclaim his old House seat says about the Democrats in 2018

In an election that will give its winner unprecedented powers, Turkey's formerly weak opposition has banded together, using the authoritarian president's own tools against him.

Identity politics isn’t the problem for Democrats. It’s the solution.

I argued that demographics favored the Democrats. I was wrong.

Identity politics has its roots in an expansive, radical agenda. But you wouldn’t know that from its liberal critics.

Assimilation and its meaning.

A (conservative) case for gay marriage