Readers sent hundreds of reflections on the nation’s 250th birthday in recent weeks, and we’ll publish a story about them on ...

There are two distinctly American traits that predated and supercharged the Revolution, raging on for the 250 years since: We ...

At 250 years, America’s fault lines are showing. Partisan and regional divisions rival the most intense internal conflicts it ...

Did George Washington really chop down a cherry tree? Did he have wooden teeth? How would he feel about politics today?

John Adams, the second president of the United States, and his successor Thomas Jefferson did not share the same view of ...

For generations, historians have downplayed the American Revolution as a squabble between elites. But the revolution unleashed egalitarian forces its architects could neither control nor contain.

DAP disciplinary committee chief Tony Pua has raised a question while also wondering whether asking it could land him in trouble under the Sedition Act. Although he did not mention names, it is ...

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...

Following the government's release of declassified UAP files, the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) updated its list of eight principles that were designed to guide our search for ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

It's one thing to watch "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" in a theater. Watching it with Steven Spielberg? That's a master class. Viewing a scene with Richard Dreyfuss, the conditions of filming ...