I consumed a lot of horror movies during my teen years. For a couple of my friends, my room became the hub where we watched the standard fare of slashers, munched on overly processed snacks, and critiqued the characters' decisions as they ran for their lives. We, of course, would make better, ...
Nearly three decades after the end of the Troubles, Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, is once again on fire. On Monday, June 8, a Sudanese "asylum" seeker attacked a local man on the street with a kitchen knife, slashing him across the face and neck. Graphic video of the attack, which ...
Is a glass of wine with dinner going to increase your chance of getting cancer or another serious illness? For the past few years, we've been deluged with studies and news accounts suggesting that the answer is yes. This week, the USDA reinstated a caution in its dietary guidelines about ...
The sudden death of the historian Gordon Wood, just weeks before the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, is one more mark of the closure of a golden age of the historiography of the Revolutionary era. It's an occasion to reflect on the uniqueness, indeed ...
Most times when I'm invited to speak at a conference, someone introduces me by reading the short bio provided. But this past week at the Southeastern Writers' Association Conference, my friend, the Georgia judge and novelist Lori Duff, introduced me. She started off by warning she might ...
President Donald Trump is definitely color blind, as he can only see white, and as far as gender, it is men in all key roles. Maybe it has something to do with how Trump amassed large vote totals. White men carried Trump into the White House. Now, he's still defending an Anti-Weaponization ...
