Neither Lakunle nor Baroka is an ideal groom for Sidi, Wole Soyinka’s jewel. Lakunle, the “modern” schoolteacher, is obsessed ...

Goeglein, vice president for External and Governmental Relations at Focus on the Family, has written a sobering book — really ...

Testimony Before The Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Committee on Oversight and Government Reform United States House of Representatives February 11, 2025 Robert Rector Senior ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or ...

After US President Lyndon Johnson declared a ‘War on Poverty’ in 1964, the Office of Economic Opportunity adopted a poverty threshold devised by economist Mollie Orshansky that took a similar ...

Poverty is a big deal here in Columbia. We all know that. Putting it plainly, it is an embarrassment for such a highly educated, wealthy city to have such a high poverty rate. What does “high ...

Why Trump Doesn’t Want Judicial Review of His Deportation of Venezuelans History Ended Five Years Ago The Kansas State Capitol Is No Place for Satanists Trump DOJ Stonewalls Judge on Deportation ...

President Trump signed an executive order effectively dismantling the Department of Education on Thursday. The idea isn't a ...

"Food bank use and 'in work' poverty remain widespread after nearly 15 years of Tory austerity. "To make further cuts to the already derisory levels of welfare support would be to declare war on ...

Legendary women of the national rebirth, such as Bouboulina, Manto Mavrogenous, the “Lady of the Seas,” “Psorokostaina,” and ...

As Bangladesh posthumously bestows the Independence Award on Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, it recognises a legacy that helped build Bangladesh after 1971.

There are Christian principles which need to be borne in mind when assessing the current efforts to bring the war in Ukraine ...