Three people were indicted on federal charges that accuse them of staging a cross-burning to generate support for a Black mayoral candidate in Colorado Springs in what prosecutors described as a hate-crime hoax.

Perhaps you didn’t notice, but there is a pedestrian fatality crisis happening right now in the United States. This phrase, “pedestrian fatality crisis,” sprouted up two years ago and has spread, weedlike, everywhere from New York magazine to the New York Review Of Books, with several other major media outlets in between. These outlets have […]

During President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012, a cartoon character named Julia was created to illustrate the life of an average American. Clocking in at just 14 panels, the “Life of Julia” followed a faceless white woman from the ages of 3 to 67. We see her go to preschool, graduate from college, dye […]

In 1870, Paris, the illustrious heart of Western art, literature, and culture, was reduced to rubble. It was a disaster brought on by France’s ruler, Napoleon III, who started a losing war with Prussia in a vain attempt to improve his country’s standing as a major European power. Sadly, for the fortunes of peaceable Parisian […]