The phrase ‘so help me God’ is believed to be a part of the presidential oath ever since George Washington is said to have ...

By Emily Eakin His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. “You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely,” he wrote. Here are the year ...

It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...

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In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

No matter if you prefer romance or literary fiction, this list includes 11 great books about road trips that would be worthy additions to your reading pile. You'll find car quests that fuel ...

These are the 21 travel trends likely to guide how we see the world in 2025. — Sarah Allard What's the trend? Blame it on the collective sense of so-called "brain rot” —Oxford University Press’s word ...

In their new book, "The New World Economy in 5 Trends," Koen De Leus and Philippe Gijsels predict a future in which neutral interest rates are higher, technology is transformative and the urgency of ...

The current international financial architecture is a key reason that the UN Sustainable Development Goals are failing. A landmark conference in Spain must make progress in reforming it.

The subject line of the email said, "What if..." Editor Amos Bridges explains how a weekly column about poetry found a place ...