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Tyriek White’s We Are a Haunting traces the lives of Black Brooklynites dealing with the porous boundaries between the past and the present as they forge lives amid the detritus that others have discarded.

In his novel A Fool’s Kabbalah, Steve Stern writes in a manic whirl of disturbing and hilarious images as he follows the great historian of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem on his journey to gather up the remains of a vanished civilization.

When I first read The Count of Monte Cristo, it offered something irresistible: the possibility of reinvention. If, against all odds, Edmond Dantès could remake himself, so could I.

Since World War II, the U. S. has rarely, if ever, attacked so many places. “All war. All the time. Everywhere, ” one source put it.

Militarism and ecological collapse are not separate emergencies — they are the same emergency, feeding each other in a spiral humanity cannot afford to ignore.

Faced with a shortage of weapons to hit Russia, Ukrainians have developed their own.

Americans are paying, reindustrialization isn’t happening, and China profits.

Can the Hungarian leader’s foreign-policy distractions beat the ascendant Peter Magyar?

The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U. S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.

Zambia is expanding development of its rich deposits of critical minerals, which are needed for the global shift to renewables. But contamination from past mining and a toxic spill at a mine site are raising fears that new wealth will come at a high cost for people and the environment.

As the Air Force Academy dismantles DEI, critics warn the military is becoming "a Christian nationalist praetorian guard. ”

Data centers will swallow 14 percent of Archbald, evict a trailer park, and border many residential properties. Who's to blame is a matter of fierce debate.

Bureaucratic hurdles and high costs have prevented the offshore wind industry from developing the Great Lakes’ abundant wind resources.

As fuel costs climb, the long-term math shifts toward EVs — but consumer hesitation and infrastructure gaps could slow the transition.

Recent protests around Rio Tinto's QMM mine in Southern Madagascar are met with a company 'clarification'. But no one is any the wiser.

Despite their violent colonial past, the two nations have grown much closer in recent years.

Tulsi Gabbard faced bipartisan scrutiny over the administration’s justifications for the Iran war.

The strike on a Kabul hospital was the deadliest single incident in the conflict so far.

The threat is in retaliation for alleged Israeli strikes on Iran’s South Pars gas field.

Since Monday, March 2, Israel’s armed forces have launched daily airstrikes on Lebanon. Begun after Hezbollah fired a small volley of rockets into Israel