If you introduce water to blowing air, the temperature can drop by 10-15 degrees.

The language of Canadian politics is becoming harsher.  Public officials are targeted for abuse. Confrontations are getting more frequent and intense. 

“This attack casts serious doubt on the credibility of Russia’s commitment to yesterday’s deal and undermines the work of the U.N., Turkey and Ukraine to get critical food to world markets,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement late Saturday.

If passed, the measure will require people to get a permit and pass a background check before buying a gun, and it would prevent the sale of gun magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.

The intent is to put the resisters back into the story, to remember the resistance as a legitimate response to injustice, to an unconstitutional incarceration.

One example: Gertrude Stein’s longtime companion, Alice B. Toklas, was raised in Seattle, where her father owned one of the city’s early department stores.

People who have been working for years to get rid of those dams see this as a unique – but narrow – window. 

Seattle, these days, is not a city marked by leaders of note. Perhaps the M’s leadership has something to teach the rest of their hometown and its leaders?

Some pundits insist the feminist movement is in trouble –  beset by backlash, deserted by the disillusioned younger generation and lacking optimism.

In between music, museums and theater, there were the smaller pleasures of New York after too long an absence.

Preserving wilderness on the Olympic Peninsula began more than 113 years ago, when President Theodore Roosevelt set aside a 450,000-acre Olympic National Monument.

Such conditions are akin to those found in jails of third-world countries ruled by despots.

We have grown a full-form chamber music society of high musical distinction.

Jack Welch's style of business and his proteges are all over The Boeing Company and its woes.

Rickel insists he “never stopped having fun” but he has faced thankless challenges. 

Many factors argue against a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, which would be the equivalent of going to war with your banker.

With the dumpster-load of diplomatic crises left behind by his America First predecessor, Biden waded into the volatile region with the modest objective of resetting damaged relations with allies and adversaries alike.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition was deeply "bookish," using many of the scientific books and experts of that Enlightened era.

Long kept at arm’s length, the Catholic right is using its money to establish a beachhead at Our Lady’s University in ways unthinkable in its history.

If you want to turn Jesus into the lead guy for the forces of vengeance and retribution, you really have to distort him beyond all recognition.

The answer is not to go back to the days of the esteemed Dr. Bergman's raccoon coats, but to go bigger.

One of the objections to a third party is that it spoils elections. But a New Jersey Congressional candidate has a solution for that: a fusion party that can co-endorse a candidate.

"Scientists are not going to resolve this tension, but they are informing it."

Here's a better idea. When the department comes in under the average Target Cost of misconduct each year, split the savings with officers and the department.

Democrats, God love ‘em, have lost more than their way.

Most observers believed the battle was on, and that capital-gains-tax defenders were facing an uphill battle to preserve the tax. As it turns out, the pro-tax folks would end up winning the battle before it even started -- at least for now. 

The anti-choice argument is not about morality, it's about power.

Trump was on a vengeance mission, but Trumpification could bring changes to the U.S. Senate.

At the height of the pandemic, the bookstore swiftly transformed into an online-focused business.

"Compared with previous biennales, this 59th edition of the international art exhibition seems marked by both a greater somberness and an elevated spirt."