It was a dry and cool Wednesday evening outside the Army’s Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, a longtime military installation that once made the bombs and shells that led to victory in World War II. A contractor there knocked off work and decided to wait out rush-hour traffic....
Sick of sharing their streets with a possibly infectious and sometimes terrifying mooch, residents are demanding more lasting change. Like many mayors before him, Eric Adams responded to voters’ demands. He hired a “rat czar” to fight what he calls “the real enemy: New York City’s ...
But the gap between reality and the stresses that give rise to paranoid fantasies is much larger in the United States than in much of the Muslim world today. For all of America’s longstanding racial, ethnic, and religious enmities, most of its citizens — including many who claim...
The flu took a heavy human toll, wiping out entire families and leaving countless widows and orphans in its wake. Funeral parlors were overwhelmed and bodies piled up. Many people had to dig graves for their own family members. The flu was also detrimental to the economy. In the United Sta...
(Since they are unlikely to do what Elliott proposes by more aggressively limiting the number of participants.) maya:I am going to go the total opposite direction of smart. I want my debate stage to introduce viewers to as many lesser-known candidates as possible. Candidates who have spent ...
As many of you know, I grew up in Judaism, having attended Hebrew school and Sabbath school, and services regularly. At one time I aspired to be a rabbi. But when a rabbi spit on a hospital floor when I brought up the possiblity of Jesus being the Messiah, I gave up my desire to...
Animal studies have found that injection of graphene oxide in the body deposits the toxic substance in the lungs, liver, spleen, and kidneys. Researchers have also reported difficulty in cleansing the material out of the body. Many face masks being peddled by corporations are coated or lined wi...
troops occupied Sicily during World War II, they mistook the many jailed criminals for political prisoners and not only set them free, but appointed many of them as mayors and police chiefs. Before long, the Mafia had a firm grasp on Italy's Christian Democrat party. In the postwar years,...
The battleground state is the latest of many to restore or expand abortion access since the fall of Roe v. Wade, but it’s the first to override a 15-week ban, the policy conservatives have long argued is a “compromise” embraced by a majority of the...
In the past, these would be winter homes, many owned by Latin Americans or Russians. “There’s more buyers than we’ve ever seen from California,” she says later, as we drive by the site of a new condo going up by the ferry terminal. “We’re seeing a lot more from tech. They...