With today’s first-round victory at Basel, Canadian wonderteen Denis Shapovalov has officially qualified for Milan,…

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It’s opening night of the NBA season! It’s time to enjoy basketball, the best sport. But if you’re planning on…

Over the last seven centuries, the Knights Templar have left the realm of history and entered the realm of pop…

In an interview with the New York Times on September 11, Louis C.K. declined to discuss what the paper of record…

This week’s entry: Liberty ship

As the medieval world gave way to the early modern around 1500, European warfare was utterly transformed. Mounted…

Floyd Mayweather beat Conor McGregor’s ass; McGregor put on a respectable effort against an elite boxer, winning a…

When the Roman Empire disintegrated over the course of the fifth century, only half of it actually fell, the western…

Have you ever stopped to wonder why practically every government on earth follows the same basic form?

Decades before Romulus Augustulus was deposed in 476 AD and the Western Roman Empire officially went out of…

A good chunk of both the left and right-wing media worlds spent the past two weeks fixated on the child-custody…

The president’s supporters enjoy him because he frequently “speaks his mind,” especially on Twitter, openly and…

Tavi Gevinson recently moved into a new apartment in what real-estate developers would like you to call the Brooklyn…

DNAinfo, the local-news organization owned by right-wing billionaire Joe Ricketts, announced today that it has…

JFK TERMINAL 4 – At least 12 people were detained overnight at John F. Kennedy airport in New York, immigration…

George Zimmerman, the man who was acquitted of murdering 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012, was punched in a…

In what may or may not become an annual tradition, Sarah Jessica Parker crawled out of hibernation to remind us that…

Meg Whitman, the Hewlett-Packard CEO who ran as the GOP candidate for California’s gubernatorial election in 2010,…

Do you think you know Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, who formally accepted his party’s nomination as vice president on…