The complete online text of Plays by Alexandr Ostrovsky.

Considered by many to have been his country's greatest dramatist and the founder of its national theater, Aleksandr Ostrovsky belongs to the nineteenth-century Russian Realist tradition along with novelists Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky, an...

Congress: Turns out Donald Rumsfeld resigned as secretary of defense before last year's election. But Republicans who think announcing his departure would have saved their majority are deluding themselves.The resignation letter of the defense secretary who presided over the liberation of Iraq was made public...

Somehow the boss doesn't see through their act and they get ahead. They're the office suck-ups. It's an issue that smacks of dishonesty, as employees try to curry favor by telling the boss how great he or she is, regardless of the truth. But people...

Ah, dorm parties: the jungle juice, the big plastic jugs of liquor. Now they’re just hazy—and headachy—memories. As our capacity to overcome hangovers shrinks with each passing day, so expands the importance of moderation. And to enjoy every single sip, a preferred liquor is a...

“Let me live again!” Cable talk-show host Joe Scarborough was standing near the front windows of Christopher Hitchens’ enormous apartment in Washington’s embassy-heavy Kalorama district. He was trying to sum up his reactions to the comedy stylings of Rich Little, who had by near-universal consent...