The coffins are lined up end to end, plain wood under an open sky. Villagers stand shoulder to shoulder along the edge of the trench. Somebody starts a hymn. Somebody else can’t finish it. In parts of Nigeria, this is…
It started the way most Saturday drives do in California — sunlight, steady traffic, the usual weekend crawl of families, delivery vans and long-haul rigs sharing the same stretch of pavement. Then the sky changed color. Drivers who were still…
It started as a story about a landmark most Americans have walked past at least once in their lives — the long, mirror-flat stretch of water in front of the Lincoln Memorial, freshly renovated this year and photographed by millions…
Saturday night in New York Harbor is usually one of the prettiest sights in America. The skyline glows. Ferries slide past. And out in the middle of it all, lit up against the dark, stands the Statue of Liberty —…
The Senate chamber is empty. The lights are dimmed, the desks are cleared, and most of the hundred men and women who work there have scattered back to their home states for the longest break on the congressional calendar. Thirty-seven…
The interview was supposed to be about Tennessee. About roads and schools, about the job Marsha Blackburn says she wants next, and about why a sitting United States senator would trade Washington for the governor’s office in Nashville. It didn’t…
Sunday mornings on cable news usually run on a script. A host asks. A guest answers in careful, lawyerly sentences. Nobody says anything that ends up on a million phone screens by dinnertime. That is not how this one went.…
The Sunday morning interview started the way most of them do. Polite. Measured. Two people in studio chairs, a camera light, the familiar rhythm of a political sit-down that viewers have seen a thousand times before. Then the anchor picked…
Sunday mornings in America usually belong to coffee, church bulletins and the slow start of a quiet day. But in living rooms across Texas this past Sunday, a lot of folks put the mug down and turned up the volume.…
Most court decisions in Washington State come and go without much notice. This one landed like a thunderclap. A judge has ruled that a proposed income tax initiative, filed under the designation PIID, may appear before voters on the November…