The word perfidy has the antiquarian ring of a dead-letter crime, one that persists on the books because no one has bothered to remove it. (It also sounds, in the phrase perfidious Jews, like classic ...

(NEXSTAR) – The U.S. may have committed an act of perfidy in one of its Caribbean boat strikes last year, according to accusations reported by The New York Times. The outlet, citing officials briefed ...

Last week, The New York Times broke the news that the aircraft the US used to attack a boat in the Caribbean last September, killing 11 people, had a paint job that made it look like a civilian plane.

The English word isn’t one we hear often although it fits a number of situations. The Spanish translation became the title of a delightful melody that I heard not long ago — which inspired this column ...

Perfidy — from the French perfidie via the Latin perfidia — means deceitfulness, treachery or a breach of faith or promise. The Oxford English Dictionary traces its earliest known use to 1592, when it ...