Los Angeles has always been a city that prefers reinvention to tradition, making it the ideal incubator for new religious movements. From the beginning, its distance from the centers of ...
I fell in love with vampire movies after seeing the 1987 film “The Lost Boys.” Before that movie, I had only seen those kinds of movies for the horror. Under ...
I first became fascinated by death when I was 8 and my mummy took me to the British Museum to look at the mummies. When, at a slightly older age, ...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth finds himself under fire again — this time from political skeptics or foes across the political spectrum. But just as the case was during the ...
History may not perfectly repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Two protectionist episodes — the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 and the Trump-era tariffs of today — offer a ...
If I believed in miracles as strongly as I did as a Catholic school student, I could hope that Vice President JD Vance would be transformed by his audience with ...
Are the United States and Iran, adversaries for more than 45 years, on the cusp of striking a new nuclear agreement? After two rounds of indirect diplomacy between high-ranking officials ...
Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia a good person? I don’t know. In 2021 his wife petitioned for, and received, an order of protection against him after she alleged domestic violence; she ...
When I was a child, I visited the village in India where my father grew up. As we strolled down dirt roads, he reminisced on his barefoot youth. I don’t ...
Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, honored Francis of Assisi with the name he selected for himself when he was elected as pope in 2013. The pope’s namesake, Saint Francis, ...
