Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable revisits Vice-President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s past debate ...

I was thinking about automated self-destruct sequences, how they are used in TV and film, and the human psychology behind them. The self-destruct is usually invoked by <I>our hero/ine</I> in the 11th ...

Few Americans would argue with Winston Churchill's dictum: "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." But the culture of secrecy that has developed ...