6+ hour, 55+ min ago  (1060+ words) To historian Craig Fehrman the 8, 000-mile expedition (1804-06) indelibly associated with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark is nothing less than "our national Odyssey." To this TCM junkie their epic crossing of the continent suggests a road picture with more perils than…...

6+ hour, 56+ min ago  (237+ words) The way we raise kids and teach them in schools is governed by the philosophy that more freedom will lead to more interesting ideas. Who needs a curriculum where you read the books of the past when you can just…...

6+ hour, 57+ min ago  (107+ words) "That's Jumping Jack," Richards said. None of this is in Spitz's book. But it seems to me that "Memo From Turner" is the key to the story he tells despite himself: the Stones evolution from the Jones-Jagger-Richards triad to the…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (558+ words) Donald Trump is a teetotaler, but his fondness for the original Cuba Libre is impossible to ignore. On Wednesday, he commemorated Cuba's Independence Day with a statement reinforcing CIA director John Ratcliffe's earlier message to Havana that time is running…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (378+ words) The letter sent Thursday to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is a direct response to Iran's efforts to create a "permanent Hormuz toll system" in the strait along with Oman, a major U. S. ally. The rumored efforts have already drawn a sharp…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (545+ words) House candidate Brad Lander (D. , N. Y.) offered a stirring message of solidarity in a Queens mosque whose imam is a notorious Holocaust-denier. Lander, the former New York City comptroller who is mounting a strong primary challenge to oust Rep. Dan Goldman from…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (399+ words) Good Influence does not list all of the influencers in its "network," but its website includes headshots for some of its "creators." They include Qasim Rashid, a Pakistani-born left-wing activist and self-described "human rights lawyer" who ran for Congress unsuccessfully…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (731+ words) "Georgian Dream has helped Iran in the current war by allowing strategic Russian airlifters to transit its airspace en route to Iran, carrying supplies to help the Iranian regime and undermine President Trump," said House Foreign Affairs Committee member Joe…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (469+ words) Nearly three-quarters of a century after the Supreme Court's landmark integration decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the state of Massachusetts is relegating black and Hispanic schoolchildren to "racially segregated school districts characterized by concentrated poverty that deny Black and…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (770+ words) The Trump Department of Energy is restructuring $1. 7 billion in Biden-era grants that were designed to coax major automakers to convert their factories into electric vehicle plants, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. The funding will now be used to increase…...