Democrats need to find a way out of their house of mirrors. On Inauguration Day, January 20, all eyes will be fixed on the once and future president, Donald Trump, and the new faces that will populate ...

There are funhouse mirrors in space. Objects in the universe can be so massive — often clusters of galaxies — that they warp the cosmos, like a bowling ball sitting on a mattress. This creates ...

Later, in the age of reason and democracy, the parodist of royal dignity became a mirror of the universal condition: Dostoevsky’s “holy fool” and Picasso’s grubby clowns; Stan Laurel and ...