At the 1924 Democratic National Convention, Franklin Roosevelt introduced New York Gov. Al Smith as the “happy warrior of the political battlefield.” It’s been a popular pose on the campaign trail for more than 100 years since then, but another New Yorker chose to strike a different pose in his election night victory speech earlier […]

“Nothing in life is to be feared,” Marie Curie once wrote, “it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Curie died more than a decade before Stephen King was born, but the Nobel-winning chemist and physicist anticipated the central theme of the horror novelist’s oeuvre. Nowhere is […]

Against all odds, Hollywood has a pretty decent track record when it comes to depicting world history. Of course, no movie can capture a major historical event with full faithfulness and complete comprehensiveness, but the best ones get the big things right. Does anyone doubt that Communism was as bad as it was presented in […]

Multiple people reportedly felt ill after opening a suspicious package delivered to Joint Base Andrews on Thursday. The delivery reportedly contained a white powdery substance. Officials at the base evacuated a building after the package was opened, and multiple people felt ill. Those who reported symptoms were taken to Malcolm Grow Medical Center, where they […]