The stupidest Presidential campaign in American history.
While Putin schemes and the world burns from climate change, the candidates are talking about eating house pets and working at McDonald's. What gives?
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Historic Photo: Two great liners, Olympic and Mauretania, about to die.
Two of the greatest-ever ocean liners are about to be sent to the scrap yards.
A brief history of Presidential debates.
There's no evidence that they matter, but they certainly are memorable.
Historic Painting: “Pollice Verso” by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1872.
"AM I NOT MERCIFUL??!!!?!?!?"
The fall of American conservatism.
The conservative movement, as exemplified by Goldwater and Reagan, is moribund because it mistook campaign messaging for actual policy.
Sunn Classic Pictures: how a movie studio introduced America to fake history.
A bunch of schlocky "documentaries" from a 1970s fly-by-night film studio were not just harmless entertainment.
Boldly going nowhere: the checkered career of the space shuttle Enterprise.
What can you do with a spaceship that can't fly in space? Not much, it turns out.