‘Once in a lifetime’ snow hits parts of the U.S. South
A winter storm sweeping through the U.S. South on Tuesday was dumping snow at levels millions of residents haven’t seen ...
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The Texanist: Were Texans Disappointed When Alaska Joined the Union?
A: At about 268,596 square miles, Texas has reigned as America’s largest state from the time it was admitted, as the twenty-eighth state, on December 29, 1845, to the time Alaska was admitted, as the ...
The Nation13h
The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
Extreme cold and record snowfall to test Texas power grid
A cold blast gripping the U.S. South threatens to bring record-breaking snowfall to New Orleans and Houston and a deep freeze ...
The Forward1dOpinion
As a new Trump administration begins, I’m looking to this Soviet Jewish dissident for guidance
If you're alarmed as I am by the new president's first actions in office, the Soviet dissident Alexander Esenin-Volpin has ...
The Starbase rocket testing facility is permanently changing the landscape of southern Texas
If there is a leader in the aerospace industry, SpaceX is it. The company's Crew Dragon and Cargo Dragon spacecrafts are the ...
Heinz Kluetmeier, Inventive Sports Photographer, Dies at 82
His work for Sports Illustrated included the renowned cover photo of the United States men’s hockey team celebrating their ...
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Pope welcomes Cuba's prisoner release following talks with Vatican as part of long-standing dialogue
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a “gesture of great hope” that he prayed would be undertaken elsewhere, as he welcomed an agreement the Vatican helped ...
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These Are The Six Times The USA Lost Nuclear Weapons
Keys, phones, headphones, socks, thermonuclear weapons – some things just always seem to go missing. Believe it or not, there ...
With the new alcohol and cancer advisory, is there a ‘healthy’ way to drink?
In 1942, during its fight against the Soviet Union, Finland launched a novel campaign to keep the Red Army at bay: Raitis ...
MAGA Is Misreading Its Mandate
His probable confirmation is one of the most remarkable examples of “failing up” in modern American history. MAGA is mostly ...