Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or fewer and are subject to editing for grammar and clarity. Publication is at ...

How Rubber Shaped our Political Philosophy” The Ceylon Journal was launched last August. Its first issue is already out of ...

In Malawi, one aid group seeks to upend ideas about international assistance by giving individuals a one-time cash payment, ...

What happened in April 1775 in and near Boston is an important chapter of the story of why, how and by whom America was birthed.

Take care of your memories, for you cannot relive them.”Bob Dylan One memory is as distant as 1944 and the other, 1971. One ...

I am not sure when I first learned the pledge of allegiance to our American flag. I did not attend kindergarten, though most ...

A 90-day pause in his stiffest tariffs (excluding ... tactic that will go away when trade deals more favorable to America are worked out. Presidential counselor Peter Navarro, by contrast, argues ...

The United States this year fell to its lowest-ever place on the World Happiness Report, an annual survey published on International Day of Happiness ... its 2024 ranking. America previously ...

The last, brief time she managed to get through to her family was on the day of the quake. Her mother was crying because a building had collapsed onto Emma’s aunt, killing her. “The world [has ...

Each year on the fourth of July, also known as Independence Day, Americans celebrate this historic event. Conflict between the colonies and England was already a year old when the colonies ...