The latest Nobel Prize in economics reinforces a comforting story that isn’t true.

Every four years, some liberal Americans threaten to leave the country if a Republican wins the presidency. Canada has become almost a joke—or maybe a fantasy—in certain left-leaning circles, not just ...

Asaf Elia-Shalev is a senior reporter with JTA and author of Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth.