The Latest Breaking News from America

While some may be taking them for medically valid reasons, the trend is worrying eating disorder experts and signaling a cultural shift away from body positivity

Firearm fatalities among U.S. children under 18 increased by 87% within a decade between 2011 and 2022, according to a major study released last week. It’s a crisis the nation cannot ignore.

The Nobel prize winner and author of new book Economics in America argues economists must get back to serving society

The Golden Hill author turns his hand to the detective genre in a multilayered reimagining of 1920s America

The historian and Substack superstar says the US is in peril not seen since the civil war – and Joe Biden is its best defender

Many Americans will not have the day off from work

Indigenous People’s Day was created in reaction to atrocities carried out by Columbus and European settlers against Native American people in the Americas

From Alcatraz Island to a park in New York City, Native American people will celebrate their centuries-long history of resilience with ceremonies, dances and speeches

Twenty years ago, in October 2003, 26-year-old Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the North American publishing scene with her debut novel,“ Purple Hibiscus.”

US president accused of hypocrisy after vowing on entering the White House ‘no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall’

Back in the Nineties, I was accused of being a narcissist. Blindly myopic and self-obsessed. Thirty years later there is still no greater insult than to be called a narcissist in the cultural world. I’ve always used my life and myself as subject matter. I have never painted pictures, only…