Plug it in, plug it in Want solar panels, but worried about the potential heavy lift involved? Meet plug-in solar, the DIY answer to your solar dreams. With plug-in solar (also called balcony solar), even […]
Historical mysteries that were finally solved decades later Forensic science does not always deliver on schedule. Evidence has a way of traveling winding, indirect routes toward the truth, sometimes surfacing first as rumor, half-memory, or […]
Test your energy smarts Have you noticed your electric bills creeping up? You’re not alone. Across the country, electricity prices have increased 18% since 2025. Why are bills going up when the Trump administration promised […]
The cold cases that continue to baffle investigators Some (criminal) cases get solved eventually. This may be directly attributable to advances in DNA technology, a witness finally talking, or a shipwreck being located. These seven […]
Editor’s note: Charles Sennott is off this week and so he asked our colleague Wilson Liévano to take a look at what has happened to press freedom in Venezuela more than six months after the […]
Sofia Esquivel Elizondo was explaining the details of a research paper to a group of scientists, economists and communications professionals during a meeting in late June when she realized she was starting to confuse meters […]
When he first ran for mayor of Cleveland in 2021, Justin Bibb was virtually unknown. A political newcomer, early polls revealed that only about 5% of the city’s residents even knew his name. To change […]
What we see (and don’t see) in the Middle East The U.S.-Iran conflict continues to escalate, and it is hard for me not to feel a centrifugal force pulling me toward the Middle East. For […]
Presidents with the most pardons As the longest serving president, Franklin D. Roosevelt gave more pardons and commutations than any other to date, with a total of 2,819 people. Many of these were for people […]
A woman translated it. A man filmed it. The culture war that followed says less about Homer than about who still gets to decide whose story counts. Why would a University of Pennsylvania classics professor […]