It looks increasingly like one of President Donald Trump’s first actions will be to end the individual mandate which requires all Americans to have health insurance. Conservative media like Breitbart ...

If Giorgio Vasari is the godfather of art history, James Brown is the godfather of soul, and Marlon Brando is the godfather, then Jonathan Swift is surely the godfather of satire. That is not to say ...

In 1729, Jonathan Swift published the most famous satirical essay in the English language: A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents ...

Jonathan Swift is mostly remembered for “Gulliver’s Travels,” which is sometimes told as a children’s story and more rarely recognized for the political satire it was. But Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” ...