ONE HUNDRED years ago, the hills above Los Angeles got a facelift. A giant sign was erected to advertise a new real-estate development. Its 13 letters, each 43 feet tall, spelled “HOLLYWOODLAND” (“land” was later Read More
The presidentiaL election of 2024 will feature Joe Biden against the Republican nominee. The polls suggest that person will be Donald Trump, giving America the sequel it does not want. Mr Biden announced his re-election Read More
The 75-year partnership between America and Israel stems partly from the friendship between just two men. After the first world war broke out, Edward Jacobson, a son of Lithuanian immigrants in Kansas City, Missouri, enlisted Read More
After years of denials and months of—in the words of the presiding judge—“absurd” delay tactics, on April 25th the civil (as opposed to criminal) trial of the former president of the United States began for Read More
SIX YEARS AGO the most popular cable-television host had a prime-time show on Fox News. Loud, opinionated and bombastic, he was a thorn in the side of two Democratic administrations. Liberals abhorred him; conservatives tuned Read More
IN APRIL 2018, teachers in Oklahoma staged an insurrection. Angry at dismal pay, they walked out of their classrooms for nine days and converged on the state capitol to demand more money. This was part Read More
The seal of Detroit, created after it burned to the ground in 1805, anticipated the way despair and determination would vie ever after for the city’s future. One woman weeps beside burning buildings while another Read More
WHAT IS a shepherd without a flock? Many of America’s pastors may soon have to answer. In 2014, 3,700 Protestant churches closed, by 2019 that figure was 4,500, according to Lifeway Research, a non-profit organisation Read More
When gerald groff took a job as a pinch-hitting mail carrier for the United States Postal Service in 2012, his strict observance of the Christian sabbath posed no problem. But after the USPS started doing Read More
A couple of years ago Jake Morgan, a farmer who lives just outside Raleigh, in North Carolina, realised he needed a new vehicle to get around his property. At first he was looking at “side-by-sides”—a Read More
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