In 1888, former German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck gave a prescient warning: that at some indefinite point in the future, a European war would be triggered by “some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.”...

WT Quizbowl (@wt_quizbowl) has, so far, had a very successful season. After losing star senior and team captain Jack Chaillet at the end of the previous year, coaches David Hallas and Joshua Andy began...

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The humanitarian crisis in Aleppo, Syria seems to be getting worse by the day, or, at the very least, not improving. The Russian and Syrian air campaigns, masterminded from a safe distance by Bashar al-Assad...

Early in the morning of September 17th, a pipe bomb detonated during a Marine Corp fun run in Seaside Park on the Jersey Shore. Luckily, no one was injured and, at the time, it seemed like an odd, almost...

Unbeknownst to many in the US whose media found Hillary Clinton’s pneumonia to be more engrossing news, the long-time dictator of the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, died of a stroke...