Western Promises

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

Do the Math

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

Trump holds first rally with running mate JD Vance

Former President Donald Trump is holding his first campaign rally since he survived an attempted assassination, returning to the battleground state of Michigan alongside his new running mate. “It was exactly one week ago, even to the hour, even to the minute,” Trump said before the crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan, reflecting on the July