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The former British colony of Hong Kong is frequently cited as a classic example of limited government and free market...

They were beautiful. They were rich. They were famous. They were powerful. Catherine Bourton: With a face like the Mona...

Polls consistently show that most Americans are progressives at heart. By margins of at least two to one, we favor...

As a young man, one of America's first conservationists, the late Aldo Leopold, instantly regretted his actions as he watched...

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America’s Haunted Universities examines some of the most haunted locales in the country—U.S. university campuses. From haunted libraries to doomed...

As a painter and a person, I believe in the overwhelming power of light. Whether it's the strong lighthouse beam...

It had been the cruelest joke ever played on the men and women who survived the Great War. The politicians...

Innovation: The elusive butterfly of Enterprise management. Its patterns are chaotic, its processes vague and undefined and its successes random....

<p align="justify"> The Davis-Bacon Act is a United States federal law that established the requirement that prevailing wages must be...

John Righten's autobiography The Benevolence of Rogues tells of the characters he encountered during his many adventures. Their stories spring...

The world of Blasphemer is ruled over by the Othergods, evanescent beings who leech sustenance from the souls of humans,...

An investigation into Australia's bikie clubs. Are Australia's bikie clubs bastions of organised crime? Useful pawns in the political law...

Not Yet Damascus celebrates a tumultuous era without patriotic leaders willing to transform their national wastelands into thriving bastions. The...

On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris....

A peculiar feature of our country today, says Michael Barone, is that we seem to produce incompetent eighteen-year-olds but remarkably...

The first study to focus on white and black women journalists and writers both before and after the Civil War,...

The first time we came here I didnt know what to expect, she told me as we paddled upstream. What...

North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on...