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Two Unsung Heroes as Role Models for the Air Force: James Robert “Cotton” Hildreth and Daniel Hale.

Honduran President Xiomara Castro is also skipping this week's Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles.

In Ukrainian towns near Russia’s border, Moscow’s influence was strong and Ukrainian was rarely spoken. The war has changed that.

Conventional wisdom says that the rule of the majority is in unavoidable tension with the rights of the minority.

Soul City was a boondoggle—not a story of lost or forgotten roads tragically not taken.

For years, Thomas Piketty has articulated a cogent critique of 21st-century capitalism. He now appears to be moving beyond just critique to call for a 21st-century socialism.

Despite growing profits, casino operators used predictions of “grave danger” to convince the state to slash their tax burden, denying millions to the city, its school district and the county.

Anthropologists have helped uncork the fascinating history of winemaking—from drunken primates to Stone Age seed domestication to intoxicating religious rites.

Global mining companies have used the pandemic to push unwanted projects on vulnerable communities, who are fighting back — and sometimes winning.

The task of political education is to provide a grounding and the dynamics and strategy of building a larger front.