While Trump lays waste to American universities, the new laureate says they’re vital to economic growth.

He’s embarrassingly desperate for the honor, but his presidency is becoming ever more dictatorial and bloodthirsty.

Donald Trump shared two posts that managed to make the prize all about him.

Representative Buddy Carter is furious that Donald Trump didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Hungarian author’s intricate and complex style has aggravated some and deterred many. Until now.

The Nobel Committee delivered a sharp message on the global threat to democracy, as it awarded this year’s peace prize to Maria Corina Machado.

Donald Trump has made no secret of how badly he wants the Nobel Peace Prize.

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

Senator Bill Cassidy put the HHS secretary in an extremely difficult spot.

Donald Trump reportedly begged a Norwegian minister to nominate him for the award.

The Swedish Academy's decision to award Korean novelist Han Kang is a minor victory in a world of consolidation.

Sixteen economists predict that a second Trump term would cause inflation to skyrocket.

“The Young Man” is more than the story of an affair. It’s an intense re-examination of the past.

The Harvard economist’s legacy is her economic history of women in the workforce. But her work on income inequality was also pathbreaking.

The once wild-and-woolly literary award has entered its steady and serious era.

Gurnah’s haunting novels of war and oppression, which won him the Nobel Prize in literature last year, defy the dominant trends in American publishing.

Finally, the Swedish Academy got it right.

People want the most prestigious award for literature to make a political statement. It complies only in unpredictable and inscrutable ways.

If Haruki Murakami wins, I will eat one of his fancy T-shirts.

The Republican candidate for governor of Virginia’s closing message gives the “critical race theory” game away.