Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents evidence that subduction can spread like a contagion, jumping from […]
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From the beginning, Donald Trump’s approach to deportations has been about both removing people from the country and the spectacle of removing people from the country. If any doubt lingered about the president’s commitment to the cause, he erased it
Today—250 years since the Continental Army officially formed to fight for the independence of the American colonies against the British monarchy—marks a milestone in President Donald Trump’s effort to politicize the U.S. military. Though they are rare, military parades have
Just how mad is Beijing about President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke student visas for Chinese nationals? Not as mad as it says, and not as mad as one might expect. Publicly, China’s leadership will likely complain that Trump’s action
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable discusses President Trump’s deployment of uniformed troops in Los Angeles, the Administration’s attempt to blur
Donald Trump is not much for second-guessing his own behavior, so, on the rare occasions that the President expresses regret, it’s worth paying attention. One such moment involves Trump’s decision not to call out federal troops when protests erupted in
Forty-nine years ago, on what I recall as a Saturday morning when I was six and my father was fifty-six, I barged into the bathroom, as was my habit, and witnessed a scene that both bewildered and fascinated me. Our
While Corzo was working on the book, he learned that Walter Barahona, the brother of one of the gang’s leaders, José Luis Barahona, was being held in a prison known as Little Hell, in a department on Guatemala’s Pacific Coast.
A pair of 14,000-year-old “puppies” found melting out of the permafrost in Siberia have undergone genetic testing, proving they were actually wolf cub sisters and not domesticated dogs as was previously assumed. “Whilst many will be disappointed that these animals
