Writer Howard Melvin Fast was born on November 11, 1914, in New York City to a Jewish family; his father, Barney Fastowski, came from the Russian Empire, from the town of Fastov, near Kiev, and his ...

A new biography charts the life and death of the socialist firebrand John Maclean. Our Writer at Large talks to author Donald Robertson about a ...

Fashion week, unsurprisingly, has a long history of being a billionaire’s playpen. There was even a time in which the rich were fashion superheroes in couture capes—legends are told of when André Leon ...

When I recently started reading investigative journalist Peter Schweizer’s “The Invisible Coup,” I had not realized it had ...

PERHAPS the best-known foundational Marxist text (and one of the easiest to read), the Communist Manifesto is a pamphlet written jointly by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and first published in ...

Her diary overflows with her devotion to books and movies. But after rereading the entries, a critic was struck by how often ...

Brutalist homes came up everywhere after World War II as a way to provide people with affordable housing, but there's a reason why the design trend didn't last.

The president’s pick for surgeon general is a vaccine skeptic. During her Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, Casey Means ...

Today marks four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Across the last year, pundits on either side have often forecast a decisive breakthrough, whether due to Russian ...

Marking W E B Du Bois' birth anniversary on 23 February, a line from his 1957 speech reflects on the idea of the price of liberty. Check full list of W E B Du Bois' best-known works here.

Not only is January the month of fresh starts and setting goals, but it also brings weather that can be particularly inspiring for staying in and picking up a good book. That dovetails nicely with ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s blanket fiasco may not have been about a blanket at all. The so-called ICE Barbie allegedly had her rumored beau, expired-special-employee Corey Lewandowski, ...