In Rupert Brooke’s best-known poem, a soldier says that if he dies, there will be “some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England.” As I discovered nearly 30 years ago, such corners, dating from 1918 and 1919, can be found in a cemetery in Archangel (Archangelsk) in Russia’s far north. In her latest
Mathematicians can have a childlike sense of wonder. They chart the optimal color of bananas to ripen on schedule, rather than just purchasing the best-looking ones. Where most people see a mess to clean up, they see the partial differential equations written in the red of splattered ketchup. They set up statistical models to predict
In June, former President Donald Trump’s campaign and allied political action committees paid their lowest monthly amount in legal bills so far in 2024. The Trump campaign paid less than $1 million in legal bills in June—a much lower amount than the preceding months this year. On July 20, a number of political action committees
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, alongside other senior officials and agency leaders, have issued a joint statement firmly defending female Secret Service agents during the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. “In the days following the attempted assassination of former President Trump, some people have made public statements questioning the presence
The doctor said the swelling has resolved and the wound is starting to ‘granulate and heal properly.’ A week after the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, former White House physician and current Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) issued a statement providing details about the former president’s injuries sustained in the shooting. A gunman opened
The president has the KP .2.3 variant of COVID-19, which has become the dominant strain in the United States in recent weeks. White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor released a new letter on July 20 providing a medical update on President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 symptoms after the president tested positive for the virus three days
The president has the KP .2.3 variant of COVID-19, which has become the dominant strain in the United States in recent weeks. White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor released a new letter on July 21 providing a medical update on President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 symptoms after the president tested positive for the virus four days