In 1980, America's publicly held debt reached more than $712 billion (about $2.8 trillion in 2025 dollars), or roughly 25 percent of annual U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). Today, that figure is a little over $30…
In 1980, America's publicly held debt reached more than $712 billion (about $2.8 trillion in 2025 dollars), or roughly 25 percent of annual U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). Today, that figure is a little over $30…
Over the years, I have often written about embarrassing corrections in the New York Times. Partly because it is fun, but mostly because such corrections shed light on that paper’s persistent biases. Today’s paper had a good…
A migrant sex offender who is wanted by police tried to hand himself in after wrongly being released from prison. Hadush Kebatu, who was previously jailed for 12 months for sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Epping, was…
Yesterday evening I attended the opening of this year’s Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival at the Riverview Theater in Minneapolis’s Longfellow neighborhood. A uniformed security officer stood guard conspicuously…
Have a go at our next caption competition (above). Send entries by email only to [email protected] by 9 a.m., Monday 3 November.We invite readers’ ideas for photos: please provide a credit and confirm that…
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