These are the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winners for journalism
It has been a difficult few years for US news organizations. President Donald Trump relentlessly attacks what he believes to be a biased, factually agnostic…
Quiz: Are these idioms British or American English?
English is a messy language. The roots of its grammar are Germanic, but its vocabulary comes mostly from Romance languages. And as a global lingua…
The man behind Trump’s trade war once negotiated using a paper airplane
US trade representative Robert Lighthizer is the man lurking in the shadows of Donald Trump’s trade offensive on China. The veteran international trade lawyer is…
Once Brazil’s president, Lula will have a very different life in jail
Riding a literal wave of support, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is headed to prison. The massively popular Brazilian former president has been sentenced to…
The year’s most beautiful banknotes
Which country’s currencies elicit shivers of pleasure, exchange rates be damned? For the second year in a row, the Swiss franc wins for its svelte…
The UK’s post-Brexit passport reportedly will be an EU import
Soon the purveyors of official Britishness will likely be Dutch. The British company De La Rue, which has made the UK’s passports for the past…
A John Oliver spoof of the Pence family’s new children’s book is an instant Amazon bestseller
Karen and Charlotte Pence, the wife and daughter of US vice president Mike Pence, released a children’s book today, Marlon Bundo’s Day in the Life…
Stephen Hawking’s moving argument that human evolution has gone far beyond biology
Physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking died today (March 14) at 76. Hawking’s major achievements included developing the first theory of cosmology unifying general relativity and…
There’s nothing else like Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury”
Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff’s inside account of Donald Trump’s first nine months as US president, is so incendiary it’s become a publishing phenomenon. Quartz…
Readers will get their first full intimate look at the life of Michelle Obama in November
Michelle Obama—beloved and, in many ways, enigmatic—will open herself up to public scrutiny this November. The Chicago-born former lawyer and US first lady announced yesterday…
Dictionary-makers found the first known use of “mansplain”
Be careful riding the online trollercoaster; any slang you coin in internet comments could end up in the definitive record of the English language. “Mansplain”…
