Two Democratic senators just completed a visit to South Korea and Japan, with cooperation on shipbuilding a major topic. Duckworth and Kim told BI that the US needs to give the allies clearer ...

In honor of Black Business Month, I am highlighting lessons on innovation and resilience from Black entrepreneurs. Below, you’ll learn how the Black-female-founded company Ecomspaces turned an ...

A new study from the University of Georgia and Brigham Young University demonstrates how attending live events can help combat loneliness and build social connections. The research, published in the ...

A building set to open as the Eastern Carolina Veterinary Medical Center exploded on Aug. 19 after a vehicle hit a gas line. Five firefighters were injured in the blast, but no one was killed. The ...

Before her first speaking engagement in early 2017 at a private conference in her hometown of Seattle, Amanda Knox wore a blanket of nerves. It’d been nearly 10 years since Knox, then a 20-year-old ...

Michael A. McCarthy’s The Master’s Tools is about the power that finance exerts over people. He inquires into the problem and how it could realistically be solved: Why has finance capitalism left ...

At just 17 years old, Ali Seif was forced to leave Iran. What began as a move marked by uncertainty and resilience eventually led to a life of purpose in Ecuador, where he now teaches languages at the ...

Queen Bey’s “Cowboy Carter” tour officially closed a few weeks ago, the kids are heading back to school, and our days of sunlight are getting shorter. That can only mean one thing—summer is almost ...

On July 29, the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners approved the appointment of Ty Rupert as interim sheriff. Rupert is a 20-year veteran of the sheriff’s office, which he will lead until Nov.

Let’s talk loose ends and the blessed end of Mercury retrograde. While Mercury, our fleet-footed, silver-tongued, trash-talking and mayhem-making planet of the mind and the mouth officially stations ...

In June of this year in America, I offered the concept of cosmopolitanism as an important corrective to the nationalistic tendencies that are so prevalent in today’s political and social discourse.

KIBBUTZ EREZ, Israel — Under the shade of a large tree on Kibbutz Erez less than a mile from the Gaza Strip, half a dozen Israeli children play history trivia games with a counselor. When loud booms ...