Here Are Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2018
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Reading isn’t dead yet! In fact, 2018 was another banner year for great works of nonfiction, including, if you’ll pardon the nepotism, a pair of bestsellers penned by our own editorial staffers. Reporter Shane Bauer’s American Prison—spun out from his gripping, National Magazine Award-winning account…
Claus and Effect: What Medical Researchers Say About Santa’s Unhealthy Lifestyle
VladGans/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Around Christmastime 2009, an Australian public health researcher launched a new field of inquiry with an article in the British Medical Journal titled “Santa Claus: A Public Health Pariah?” The piece, which examined the potential, um, clausality between St. Nick’s personal health and that…
An Illustrated Guide to the Swamp Creature Who Could Be the Next Interior Secretary
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Are 2,000 US Trainers All That’s Holding Back Armageddon in the Middle East?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As you know, President Trump has announced that he’s going to pull out all American troops from Syria. According to news reports, he made this decision without really telling anyone first, and the withdrawal will almost certainly be done in the worst, most slapdash way…
Trump Said ISIS Has Been Defeated in Syria. That’s News to His National Security Team.
Leon Neal/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump’s baffling decision to withdraw US forces from Syria provided critics and allies with another reason to doubt promises made by the president’s national security team—as Trump’s claim that ISIS has been “defeated” was quickly contradicted by his own aides. In September,…
Trump Will Force Asylum-Seekers to Wait in Mexico
Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Thursday announced that asylum-seekers who arrive at the US-Mexico border will be forced to wait in Mexico while their cases are decided, a process that can take years. The plan is the most aggressive step yet in the…