South Korea reached a record low in fertility in June, falling to a rate of just 0.70, a sharp drop from the already dismal 0.78 recorded in 2022. That puts...
Margin Notes
As a child, I visited the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg. It was hard to imagine that peaceful scene—a lush, quiet field of gently waving tall grass—as...
In June the U.S. Supreme Court struck down what had been considered a sacrosanct civil rights achievement, ruling affirmative action programs at Harvard...
Archeologists in Alicante, Spain have turned to drone technology to safely reach caves that would otherwise have required a death-defying trek by intrepid...
On March 15, Brian Rodenas, a prison inmate in Rhode Island, wrote a note to his mom from “your favorite son.” “I hope you’re doing good. I got in trouble so...
Sixty years ago this month, during a commencement address at American University, a youthful President John F. Kennedy unveiled a strategy for peace during a...
In February the U.S. Department of Labor reported the outcome of one of the largest child labor investigations in its history. Wisconsin-based Packers...
In January 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order committing the United States to preserving 30 percent of its land and territorial ocean by the...
The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision last June fulfilled a long-term ambition of the nation’s pro-life community by overturning Roe v. Wade, but it...
Canada is poised next month to expand a vast social experiment in state-sponsored “medical assistance in dying.” Beginning, unpleasantly, on St. Patrick’s Day...
