An institution under attack from the Trump administration provided relief from the weather on July 4 — and a chance to ponder what it means to be American. At the National Museum of American History ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On New Year’s Eve, fireworks bloomed behind the Washington Monument. Along the side ...

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A new allegation against Graham Platner has intensified scrutiny as the Maine Democrat denies the claim.

I went to the Reflecting Pool because, as a certain American naturalist once said of a different pond, I wished to “live deliberately” and “see if I could not learn what it had to teach.” I doubted ...

When Kwun Tong Maryknoll College in Hong Kong announced that it would tighten its mobile phone rules on campus, some pupils reacted so strongly that the Catholic boys’ school was forced to put the ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

All the major parties have rejected Nigel Farage's attempts to call a by-election, by refusing to stand a candidate. Follow latest. 'Justice finally been done': Last woman hanged in the UK granted a ...

We often talk about certain works of art ushering in or being ushered in by, but "Independence Day" ("ID4") truly broke the mold for how huge tentpole pictures were marketed three decades ago, ...

"Independence Day" definitely isn't "The War of the Worlds". The characters are all new, the alien invaders don't come from Mars, and HG Wells sure as hell didn't write about spaceships engaging in ...