New Orleans has elected its first white mayor since 1970 in a city where politics has long been racially divided.

If you can avoid treating new American cuisine as if it werea patriotic endeavor one simply must pursue, you will discover that it is a festal endeavor that one can enjoy in relative simplicity.

Though liberals may have put away their wings in foreign affairs, they are ever ready to soar higher at home, and Peter Beinart thinks our foreign policy travails are reason to cheer them on.