On Wednesday, the White House shockingly pulled the credentials of reporter Jim Acosta, after the CNN reporter got into a heated exchange with President Trump during a televised press conference.…
Click:EPCOS B43564-S9588-M003 400V 5800uF CapacitorIt was Friday, three days into the new year, and there I sat at the breakfast table in my son Josh’s fashionable second-story apartment in Dallas,…
THE GOOD NEWS: Iceland provides grants and government assistance to creatives and offers retreats for international writers. Every morning at 8 a.m., Halldór Laxness, a 20th-century Icelandic writer, ventured…
Brazilian OGlobo newspaper front page on April 2, 1964., the day after the military coup. The headline reads: "Democracy returns". Brazilian society supported the military coup of 1964. The media…
Irma Ruger, wearing a white blouse with blue tailored skirt and matching jacket — almost a uniform — entered the classroom among, but not with, a gaggle of other second-grade…
On January 2, 1980, The New York Times reported the death of famous media hoaxer Alan Abel. The only problem was: Abel wasn’t dead. To fool the Times’ fastidious reporters,…
Indigenous woman who has been involved in struggles to retain her community's land since the mid-2000s, in rice cultivation field in Northern Cambodia. Author's pic.This article is part of a…
Nina Wilcox Putnam wrote lighthearted comedy, gothic horror, romance, and western novels and short stories (in addition to her journalistic pursuits) throughout the early 20th century. Putnam wrote the story…
Today, 1 in 3 people is expected to get cancer in their lifetime. The number of American cancer cases increased significantly throughout the 20th century. In the 1940s, 1 in 16 people…
It’s easy to forget, amid so much ugliness and political unrest, that we live in a relatively tolerant time. Consider it from the perspective of Gilbert Bradley and Gordon Bowsher,…