Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards The average cost to attend a private college in 1970 was about around $3,000 a year. Today, it costs more than $50,000. How we got to this point, and its seemingly endless consequences on families and U.S. society, are the issues explored in Will Bunch’s new book, “After the Ivory … Read more
Conspiratorial radio host Alex Jones faces potentially significant financial damages for his defamation of Sandy Hook parents, creating a rare moment of mostly bipartisan comity as commentators on the right and the left have joined together in celebrating the verdict. Jones spent nearly a decade attacking some parents of the 20 children, aged of six … Read more
David McCullough, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian whose biographies gave character and compelling narratives to some of America’s most revered figures, has died. He was 89. His daughter, Dorie Lawson, confirmed his death to The New York Times. Two of McCullough’s most famous works, presidential biographies of Harry Truman in 1992 and John Adams … Read more