As a child, my mother often took my sister and me on day trips to Lawrence, a college town in Kansas. While their downtown ...

It doesn’t take that much longer to read Train Dreams than to watch Bentley’s film, but literature offers a dexterity of ...

American Thanksgiving always brings a big batch of new movies. Add in a few independent films and a holdover or two and we've ...

In a brief greeting to the press after departing Rome for his debut international trip Thursday, Pope Leo wished journalists ...

Kennedy’s vision of a country built up through the service of its citizens is fundamentally incompatible with the vulgar ...

Two stories anchor our oldest holiday. Both took place in times of division and deprivation. And both offer a hopeful note ...

Two stories anchor our oldest holiday. Both took place in times of division and deprivation. And both offer a hopeful note ...

As the Dallas Cowboys face the Kansas City Chiefs in a Thanksgiving showdown, we take a look at one of the storied ...

In this dazzling essay movie, the director Kahlil Joseph draws on an array of sources — news clips, old movies, family albums ...

Crime fiction makes us examine who we are and how we, as a society, deal with life’s challenges. 2025 was another outstanding ...

In a recent commentary in the Carroll County Times, “Two Speeches that define Trump,” columnist Tom Zirpoli asks, how could ...

The Associated Press and the Trump administration are back before a federal appeals court. They're still engaged in their ...