Hey, it’s election season! Think about it: A year from now, we should know who the next president is going to be and … Stop beating your head against the wall. Before we start obsessing over the ...

Like one of those famous exploding cigars in a Groucho Marx movie, nature imitates life by producing an exploding cigar of its own - a brand new, bright supernova in the "Cigar Galaxy" M82 in the ...

As Che Guevara’s Bristol Britannia finally landed back in Havana last week, the home folks cheered, and the rest of the hemisphere permitted itself a mighty sigh. Not only had Che done his best to ...

As fans we’ve grown to expect a downtrodden locker room when things don’t turn out the way the players had hoped, particularly at the end of a season. Sunday in Arizona, the Seahawks beat the ...

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes it’s an exploding cigar, of the harmless kind with which Ernest Hemingway pranked a Turkish general, or of the deadly kind with which the CIA planned ...

The gerrymandering doom spiral is gaining downward momentum, exactly as expected. Virginia is poised to become the second state, after California, where Democrats will seek to unravel reforms that ...

But Fidel Castro, the socialist leader of Cuba, was crafty, and the agency just couldn’t nail that furry little rascal. Not that it didn’t try. By some accounts, the CIA tried to kill Castro 638 times ...

The gerrymandering doom spiral is gaining downward momentum, exactly as expected. Whether the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts will continue to push Americ… The partisan fight to ...

The gerrymandering doom spiral is gaining downward momentum, exactly as expected. Virginia is poised to become the second state, after California, where Democrats will seek to unravel reforms that ...

For Groucho Marx, the stock market was nothing to laugh at. The mustached wag invested his fortune, a quarter-million dollars, on a tip from a bellhop at the Ritz-Carlton during the height of the ...