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A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a fresh account of the region as an incubator of ...
Producing something this stupid is not the work of a day; it is the achievement of a lifetime — relying on decades of ...
To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best nonfiction books since the festival was inaugurated.
Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today. This is the first installment of a new bimonthly column by David Austin Walsh. “A moment of ...
I cite a study in the book that shows that roughly half of those in shelters in America, and about 40% of those who are unsheltered or living on the street, have formal employment—that ...
(Flatiron via AP) If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em on a multi-day, drunk-driving road trip in middle-class middle of America ...
I'm upgrading Bank of America stock to "Buy" after Q1 2025 earnings beat expectations. Check out what I liked in BAC's Q1 ...
In the panic of "do something" about the mess Biden left, many Trump supporters are sacrificing principles, sounding more ...
More than 70 percent of book challenges in 2024 came from organized groups and government officials, according to the 2025 ...
Making America healthy again, it seems, starts with a double cheeseburger and fries. Earlier this month, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited a Steak ’n Shake in Florida and shared a meal ...
Book reviewers in America often didn’t get a byline in the magazine’s first few decades. That is a shame because I would love to know who wrote this short 1925 review of F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
By publication day for Katherine Stewart's new book, Donald Trump had returned to power with early moves toward ...