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During her confirmation hearing to become education secretary, Linda McMahon promised she would work to “send education back to the states.” Last week, McMahon’s department issued an ultimatum to ...

He began writing propaganda for the Chinese Army and, after reading the classics, became a fearless author. Perhaps that’s why he’s widely read outside his country, but hardly in China. A candidate ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is living the kind of mind-numbing, spirit-breaking, dehumanizing experience for which Franz Kafka’s ...

In 1524, hundreds of thousands of peasants across Germany took up arms against their social superiors. Peter Marshall investigates the causes and consequences of the German Peasants’ War, the largest ...

The essay collection “Silent Catastrophes” explores how we might navigate the end of empire and the rise of authoritarianism.

L.J. Smith, the acclaimed author best known for creating 'The Vampire Diaries' series, passed away at the age of 66 on March 8, 2025, after a prolonged illness. Her contributions to young adult ...

A court in Dar El Beida, near Algiers, sentenced the author on Thursday under “anti-terrorism” laws after he gave an interview to far-right French media outlet Frontieres, in which he ...

AUTHOR L. J. Smith whose novels inspired the hit TV show The Vampire Diaries has tragically died aged 66. Ms Smith died in hospital where she was being treated for a rare autoimmune disease, her ...

By Mitch Smith A federal judge in Iowa blocked on Tuesday the portion of a Republican-backed law that banned libraries in public schools from stocking books that described sex acts. The decision ...