The 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender on Sept. 2 reminds us of just how different these two campaigns were. Men of the 1st Marine Division hit the beach in the first wave to land on Guadalcanal in ...

Per usual, a late night arrival back home from my recent sojourn to Vermont was accompanied by early morning trips to the Kroger and Aldi stores to restock. On my grocery list were several Panera ...

“Dear world, it’s better this little witch die before she starts, with her sponsors, WW3!” So wrote the businessman whom Catherine Connolly met in Syria in response to a seven-year-old girl’s tweet ...

My sister is having a bad summer. In fact, even as I’m typing this, Peggy is at D.C. police headquarters. We had dinner in Georgetown recently and when we came back to my house, where her car was ...

As report cards go, it was one you hoped the dog would eat before anyone saw it. In a recent ranking of parks in the nation’s 100 most populous cities, Los Angeles surrendered its spot at No. 88. And ...

Project (noun): a piece of planned work or an activity that is finished over a period of time and intended to achieve a particular purpose. Whenever I visit my family in Vermont, my son Nikolas has ...

Steve Lopez is a California native who has been a Los Angeles Times columnist since 2001. He has won more than a dozen national journalism awards and is a four-time Pulitzer finalist. Lopez is the ...

The Second World War has been described as the greatest human catastrophe of all time. The scope of destruction and lives lost have never been accurately measured, nor do scholars agree on the ...

Plus: My son says his generation doesn't do thank-yous. Maybe they shouldn't do vacations at my lake house, either. Asking Eric: Our children had to stop my wife from attacking me, and I don’t know ...

Ahead of next year’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the White House has issued a directive to the Smithsonian. From the daily newsletter: looking for sense ...

What is GTA RP and how do you download it? All this will be familiar to anyone who has used Skyrim's Alternate Start mods - GTA RP allows you to join the game as a regular NPC as opposed to any of the ...

This guide provides information on preparing production-quality figures and text files. The instructions apply only if your manuscript has been accepted in principle for publication and an editor has ...