President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw American troops from Syria and Afghanistan has dominated foreign policy headlines in recent weeks. During this same period, however, many news outlets have shown little interest in covering America’s deteriorating relations with Russia and China. Over the past four weeks, Chinese president Xi Jinping has threatened forceful reunification of...
Our most profound learning experiences combine the thrill of novelty with the sense of familiarity, of going home. They bring us by a new path back to something we already knew at some level. They deepen and light up the mineshafts of the soul. Now, it is strange to speak of a book on Western...
Overturned furniture clutters the room. Mom cries in the corner with her head in her hands as dad gesticulates wildly, halfway out of the door. He’s drunk. An empty whiskey glass sits on top of the piano in the middle of the room. A whimpering child huddles underneath with only his dog to comfort him....
Police have a man in custody after two men allegedly robbed CJ’s Party store in Mosherville at 10:39 a.m. on Monday morning. Hillsdale Daily News reports the suspect is 27-year-old Peter Steve Adkins II of Jackson. The other suspect is still at large. Employee Jeannie Macey had just finished helping a lady at the...
The average iPhone user looks at his phone about 80 times per day, according to Apple. That’s nearly 30,000 times a year. In the Wall Street Journal, novelist Nicholas Court wondered whether these devices “hijack our minds.” This got me thinking: How often do I look at my phone? Why do I look so constantly?...