The New York advertising agency where Shalom Auslander works got an assignment from the State Department back in 2001: Sell American values to the Muslim world. Now they just have to figure out exactly what to say to millions of people they know absolutely nothing about.

When you're powerless, you think a lot about the powerful figures above you. Especially when their actions just make no sense.

In the 1930s, the designer of the U.S. Supreme Court made a frieze to adorn the courtroom walls.