The College Board’s announcement to digitalize the SAT made major news headlines across the United States earlier this year. While standardized college entrance exams are undergoing changes and modernization, the assessments that college and university students take while in school are also ...
That indispensable part of British life — the pub (public house) — is facing the worst crisis of its centuries-old history and is shutting its doors forever at the rate of at least one a day. Leaders of the pub and brewing industries have sent a joint message to the government asking — ...
Queen Elizabeth, head of state of the United Kingdom and 14 other countries since 1952, has died. Her birth did not necessarily portend a rise to the throne. Her uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated the throne to marry an American, and his brother (Elizabeth's father) was crowned King George ...
“The Queen is dead. Long live the King.” Some would add to that traditional and ringing appeal, “God save the monarchy.” It may not need saving, but the British monarchy won’t be the same. Queen Elizabeth II was a one-off, as they say. I clearly remember the death of King George ...
I seldom write about politics. It gives me no pleasure, and I’m not certain I have a view that hasn’t already been shared by many. I scroll daily, hoping for some positive news. For the record, I am one of those “independents” that both parties try hard to lure. I grew up a Democrat, ...
It’s bad enough that authoritarian regimes, especially those in Moscow and Beijing, are seriously threatening democracy. Worsening matters is that too many democracies, some very young, are moving away from their institutional roots and liberal-minded values. In places like Hungary, Tunisia ...
