Two recent stories sum up the state of Donald Trump’s presidency and underscore the growing gap between him and his working-class support base. First, it emerged that Donald Trump Jr. had his wedding paid for by Umar Kremlev, a Russian...
In Iran, America is being sucked deeper into a war it cannot win Tehran knows it does not need to defeat the United States in a conventional war. It can instead exploit the vulnerabilities of America and its Sunni Gulf allies by opening up...
B. Traven had 27 aliases – will we ever know who he really was?
Why would Canada want to hitch itself to the EU? “Canada has what the world wants,” Mark Carney likes to tell people. But what does Canada want? The European Union, apparently. The bloc’s President, Ursula von der Leyen, has announced that Canada...
Zelensky’s strategy in the Ukraine war is national suicide For Americans who follow the RussianUkrainian war, the past few months must look very strange. In the first half of summer, the story from Kyiv – and the many western media outlets...
Why pickled cabbage was a savior for sailors
On the trail of lobstermen, moose and the ghosts of the Greenville Inn
Beware of billionaires touting the apocalypse Cassandra was a princess, daughter of King Priam of Troy. Apollo gave her the power to see the future and, when she rejected his advances, arranged that no one would ever believe her. She warned...
