Americans hate hypocrisy. We call it out, we deride it, we claim to despise it. But what if hypocrisy isn’t only inevitable in politics but actually necessary? What if the very thing we think makes us ...

On August 9, 1945, the B-29 Superfortress Bockscar opened her bomb bay doors in the skies over Nagasaki, a heavily Catholic city in Kyushu, southwestern Japan. Out of Bockscar’s belly slipped a ...

Fox News anchor Joey Jones said he is “furious” with America’s “hypocrisy” on marijuana, saying it is now fashionable to bash weed while simultaneously ignoring the issues that stem from alcohol.

If there is one thing that defines American attitudes about the Arab World, it is hypocrisy. It’s sad to say considering Americans self-define themselves as the most educated and most Democratic ...

The U.S. public is irreconcilably divided along partisan lines on virtually every issue across the political spectrum. Even a pandemic that has killed more Americans than died in every war and ...

In their essay “The End of Hypocrisy” (November/December 2013), Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore argue that the biggest threat from leakers of classified information such as Chelsea Manning and ...

American politics runs on nostalgia. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, although it has very clearly become one in a country where neither party has a coherent plan for the future past an acceptance ...