Greta and her fellow climate activists claimed that by failing to properly address climate change, the five countries are "recklessly causing and perpetuating life-threatening climate change [and] have failed to take necessary preventive and precautionary measures...."
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according to The Atlantic, if you want to party with Pence, you'd better hope Karen is at his side. The vice president said back in 2002 that "if there's alcohol being served and people are being loose, I want to have the best-looking brunette in the room standing next to me."
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If the average North Korean had access to the full internet, they'd be shocked to find that the rest of the world is a lot different than their home country. But of course that is exactly why most of them can't go online.
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A 13-year-old law banning the wearing of "saggy" pants has finally been overturned in the city of Opa-Locka, South Florida.
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It may appear to be obvious propaganda, but what do historians have to say regarding the truth about Cleopatra's descendants?
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There are two scenarios, each one roughly equidistant from the realm of possibility, that most Americans have considered. The first is "what would I do if I won the lottery?" The second: "What would my last meal be, before my execution?"
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In June of 2020, a scant 155 years after the end of the Civil War, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed a bill officially retiring the state's Confederate flag design. The hunt was on for a new set of colors to fly above the capital.
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For once, 2020 has brought about some good news. Well, good news for the people who have been looking for signs that aliens have already visited Earth, anyway.
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Harvey Milk is an icon, the first non-incumbent openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. Here's the tragic story of Harvey Milk.
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The lesser-known political parties of the U.S. run the gamut from weird and wacky to disturbing and even scary. Here are some you probably haven't heard of.
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The Peter Parker school of ethics teaches that with great power comes great responsibility. If Spider-Man had consulted a lawyer, he'd know that U.S. courts often hold people with great power less responsible for wrongdoing, especially public officials, a legal protection called qualified immunity.
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The Secret Service's mandate wasn't expanded to presidential security until 1901, when President William McKinley was assassinated while in office. The first president to be assassinated was Abraham Lincoln, in 1865 ... and, in a deep historical irony, it was Lincoln who established the Service.
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The late 1990s were a magical time. But all was not well in America -- there was a dire threat lurking just over the horizon. The United States National Security Agency was on top of it. In January of 1999, they made their move, officially banning Furbies from NSA property.
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It's probably fairly obvious and intuitive that Special Forces (AKA Green Beret) training involves a bit more than a few gentle laps, a couple of lazy pushups, and a multiple-choice test on how to kill bad guys with a pencil. Here's why you wouldn't survive it.
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You know you've done a terrible job as a politician when voters will literally elect any alternative as a political middle finger. And there are some pretty fantastic examples of pointed finger-wagging at the ballot box.
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In March 2020, an Arizona man died in an ill-fated attempt to become immune to COVID-19. He and his wife consumed a fish tank cleaner called chloroquine phosphate after confusing it with a similar-sounding malaria medication: chloroquine.
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The Dalai Lama is a complicated, multifaceted guy, and there's lots of history to unpack if you're going to engage in a conversation about him. For all of his remarkable achievements, he's a controversial figure whose life, like everyone else's, is freckled with apparent contradictions.
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What will really happen if President Donald Trump is impeached? While the Founding Fathers couldn't have prepared for everything, they did leave us with ways to remove law-breaking presidents. Robert Mueller is investigating whether that happened, but here's what will happen if Trump is impeached.
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Jamal Khashoggi was a well-known journalist who went missing after entering the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018. Did the Saudis kill him? Did speaking out against the government finally break the camel's back? Here's everything you should know about Jamal Khashoggi.
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In recent days, several pipe bombs have been intercepted in the mail, all seemingly meant for Democratic politicians or liberal public figures. Where did these pipe bombs come from and why are they surfacing now? Here's everything we know about the pipe bomb plot so far.
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Immigration is an incredibly hot-button issue. In 2018, it hit the headlines in a big way, but mostly not in a new way. Struggles over immigration have been going on for decades. Here's what really happens to immigrants when they reach the U.S. border.
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The president of the United States is the leader of the free world, right? POTUS is one of the most important jobs in the world, and it comes with a lot of responsibility ... and powers or weird rules. Here are some disturbing secrets the government doesn't want you to know about the presidency.
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Nobody really likes paying taxes, but they pay for our roads and schools and so on. Unfortunately, sometimes the wrong politicians get the keys to the national piggy bank. Here are some of the most egregious examples of politicians wasting government money.
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What really happens during a government shutdown? All kinds of wacky things, and most of it is not good for the government or for the people who rely on it. Government shutdowns are relatively recent and are pretty unique to the U.S. Here's what happens when the government shuts down.
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Politics can seem exciting from the outside looking in, but in reality, politics is probably really boring. Sometimes, though, something mysterious comes along that makes it seem hot again, like the death or disappearance of someone at a really unexpected time, something that's a little too convenient.
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The stories and lessons told about historical elections are often based more on myth, hearsay, and opinion, than they are on the realities of the time.
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