The term "blitzkrieg," German for "lightning war," is used to signify the swift deployment of concentrated military force to overwhelm a line of defense. It's most often used to describe the Nazis' use of tanks to rout first Poland in September 1939 and then the rest of Western Europe in a few ...
There's something uncomfortably familiar about President Trump's jackboot approach to the immigration debate. It brings to mind a memorable off-the-cuff stumble by Chicago's legendary late Mayor Richard J. Daley when he was asked about allegations of excessive force by city police ...
What do you mean it's still January? From Minneapolis to Venezuela to Greenland, a year's worth of current events have unfolded in a matter of weeks. Here are a few things that feel as long as the first few weeks of January have felt: The first workout after vacation at the all-inclusive ...
Alex Pretti wasn't killed while "protesting." This is a common description of what he was doing on a Minneapolis street the fateful morning when a confrontation with federal immigration agents ended in his tragic shooting. But if Pretti had been a mere protester, he'd very likely be alive ...
The debate regarding the value of a college degree has resurfaced in the news recently. With tuition continuing to increase at universities and colleges across the country, many people have, as NBC News political reporter Ben Kamisar described, "grown sour on one of the longtime key ...
Nia DaCosta’s “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” is a direct sequel to last year’s “28 Years Later” and to the original “28 Days Later” (2003), both of which originated with filmmaker Danny Boyle. The connective thread this time around is original writer Alex Garland, whose ...
