In The Land Trap, Mike Bird of The Economist has given us something a little unexpected. It’s a history of land ownership and its consequences that spans several centuries and multiple continents. Sure, readers encounter some trendy topics from the worlds of real estate and housing policy — bubbles, crashes, the failure of modern big […]
In Jack Carr’s outstanding series of thrillers featuring the fictional former Navy SEAL and intelligence operative James Reece, there are several mentions of and passages about Reece’s father, Thomas Reece, a CIA officer and former Navy SEAL who served in Vietnam. The latest entry, Cry Havoc, puts Tom Reece front and center in the action […]
In the annals of boxing’s greatest heavyweight champions, two names often enter the conversation: Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. They each had Irish backgrounds, were ring-savvy, had real punching power, and rarely lost. Their two titanic battles were highly anticipated events in the Roaring Twenties. Even though nearly a century has passed since they fought, […]
The BBC is a big part of why the United Kingdom is less free than the United States. If your chief exposure to Britain’s state broadcaster is through dramas (Dr Who) or documentaries (Planet Earth), you will have little idea of the pervasive and sedulous news bias of what is still Britain’s most watched TV […]
Seventeen transgender Air Force members sued the Trump administration after losing up to $2 million in promised retirement benefits under a ban on their military service.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who has been receiving around-the-clock care at home, has been hospitalized with a rare neurological disorder, according to his Chicago-based organization.
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is over - on paper, at least. But the American public isn't done with it yet: Getting everything back up and running doesn't happen all at once.
A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges appalling conditions at California's largest immigration detention facility, a formerly mothballed prison in the desert where sewage bubbles up from shower drains and detainees are forced to use dirty bandages to wrap open sores.
The latest city bracing for the Trump administration's immigration crackdown is Charlotte, North Carolina, which could see an influx of federal agents as early as this weekend, a county sheriff said Thursday.
The yearslong case against six Nevada Republicans who were accused of submitting a bogus certificate that declared President Donald Trump the winner of the state's 2020 presidential election has been sent back to Clark County, where a jury is more likely to rule against them.
Texas A&M University System regents on Thursday required professors to receive approval from the school president to discuss some race and gender topics, tightening rules months after a viral video of a student confronting an instructor over her lessons threw the flagship campus into upheaval.
The Trump administration on Thursday reached framework trade deals with four Latin American countries -- Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador and Guatemala -- to lower the prices of household goods such as coffee, cocoa and bananas.
