It was nearly 3 a.m. when the bomb detonated. The Irish Republican Army’s assassination attempt on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1984 was unsuccessful, but five other people were killed. Our latest release chronicles the events leading up to the near miss. A Near-Perfect Plan Only one sitting British prime minister had been successfully […]
Inside the Golf Wars
Golf used to be a very different sport. Before World War I, professional golfing was a part-time job for most people, who worked at country clubs to make ends meet. Now top golfers earn big money — so much so that the professional golf world is now at war. Politics on the Green The Saudi […]
The case against the Democrats
Fox News host and conservative commentator Mark Levin isn’t one to mince words. If you didn’t know that about Levin, you might have gleaned it from the title of his most recent book, The Democrat Party Hates America. Our latest release takes a closer look at why he feels so strongly. Anti-Whiteness? Levin says that the […]
Change your relationship to time
Have you ever seen one of those live baby eagle cams? During COVID-19 lockdowns, writer and artist Jenny Odell watched one and it inspired her to begin documenting changes in nature with photos taken from her window. She wasn’t alone; eBirds reported a 37 percent increase in birdwatchers posting observations in 2021. What did they learn? Bird […]
Will the monarchy fall?
Omar Scobie always traveled with a black suit. As a journalist covering the British royal family, he knew that it was only a matter of time before Queen Elizabeth II passed away. Still, her death still caught him a bit by surprise. Perhaps every British person believed, on some level, that Queen Elizabeth would live […]
Do you want to believe?
Thousands of unidentified flying objects have been recorded since the 1940s. And while UFO research has largely been dismissed as conspiracy theories, governments around the world take it very seriously. What have they learned? Alien Tech In 1946 alone, Sweden reported more than 2,000 sightings of “ghost rockets” that could not be explained. Building on […]
Escaping a nightmare
Rudolf Vbra was just a teenager when he escaped Auschwitz. It was 1944, and the world did not yet know much about what was happening in Nazi concentration camps. His accounts of the camp’s operations helped save 200,000 Hungarian Jews. Here’s how he broke the silence. A Plan Was Born At Auschwitz, Vbra was part […]
The one with Chandler’s legacy
As we near the two-month mark of Matthew Perry’s untimely death, we’ve heard a lot about his troubles. Perry detoxed more than 65 times in his life, starting at the age of 26. He went public with all his struggles in an effort to show other addicts that they weren’t alone. Sharing His Story In 2019, […]
Dissecting the crisis
Can a small group of ultra wealthy people rewrite U.S. history? That’s the concern of Heather Cox Richardson, a history professor at Boston College. She takes a closer look at the ideological battles that have shaped American society, including the struggle for equal rights, in Democracy Awakening. History Repeats Itself A key takeaway from Richardson’s analysis […]
Jerry Seinfeld voice: “What’s the deal with Bitcoin?”
Stones. Beads. Feathers. Shells. Fur. Salt. No, we’re not assembling supplies for a weird craft project. These were different forms of currency used throughout history, before people settled on the forms of money we use today. The History of Money The global monetary system has lagged behind the large technological gains that we’ve enjoyed more […]
