Today’s climate-change kraken may have been unleashed by human activity—which has discharged greenhouse-gas emissions into Earth’s atmosphere for centuries—but reversing course and taming nature’s growing fury seems beyond human means, a quest only mythical heroes could fulfill. Yet the dream of human-powered flight—of rising over the Mediterranean fueled merely by the strength of mortal limbs—was…
Click reporter Paul Carter has a go at playing Minecraft with his eyes.
How many more unnecessary deaths will occur before this is stopped?
Is free speech dead in Europe? Just this week in Belgium, police stormed a gathering of conservatives, attempting to overtake the event on the grounds of “public safety” and stopping “a public disturbance.” The National Conservatism Conference, or “NatCon,” planned to host a conference for European conservative thought leaders such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor […]
The anti-growth coalition, Bank of England and the OBR are among those under fire from Liz TrussRaw free-market economics is missing in action. Somewhere between its 1980s ascendancy and today, the media, politicians, civil service and even the corporate mainstream abandoned small government and low taxes.At the heart of Liz Truss’s new book, Ten Years to Save the West, the former prime minister reckons this is the reason for Britain’s economic drift, alongside “unelected technocrats” overruling...
Since smart tech can work to prevent the kind of costly events that result in insurance claims, it makes sense that there’s an emerging trend of insurance companies offering discounts for specific smart tech in the house.
A Poynter/CPB fellowship program is helping reset expectations of what it takes to manage a newsroom.
It all starts with leaning on your values. Tensions between workers and their bosses are as old as the idea of a workplace itself. It’s nothing new on the whole. But when it’s taking place in one of the most famous newspapers in the world, it tends to put the audience at attention. The paper […]
Manteca — and every other city in San Joaquin County — has a vested interest in Stockton’s success. The reason is simple. We are not an island. If Stockton gets a bad rap, we get a bad rap.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday released their 2023 tax returns. Here are lessons for everyday taxpayers, according to experts.
An excerpt from ‘Sculpted Stones: Mysteries of Mamallapuram’, by Ashwin Prabhu.
During the fierce February rainstorms, I had to drive from Riverside to Santa Barbara and back. Flooding was everywhere, and on my way home, I took an alternate route. I started off on the 101, then turned onto Highway 126 through the beauty of Santa Paula and Fillmore, the clouds massive and purple, to the 5 in Castaic, then onto the 14 along the edge of the Angeles National Forest. Finally I turned east on 138, the Pearblossom Highway. The roadway was full of commuters, but as we skirted Mt....