Brazilians have always reveled in their genius for getting themselves into impossible predicaments, complicating the predicaments beyond belief, and then scrambling out of them at the last possible ...

THE COMPLETE LETTERS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE, VOLUME I (1708-1720), collected and edited by Robert Halsband. 468 pages. Oxford, $13.45. Lady Who? A reasonable question, for the world has almost ...

Vindication A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon HarperCollins, 576 pp., $29.95 Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is remembered chiefly as a kind of double forerunner: She was the mother of ...

We speak with Mariko Hirose, the Chief Program Officer at Americans United, about Christian Nationalism. What do plans such as Project 2025 have in store for the wall that divides religion and ...

CLEVELAND -- “American Exceptionalism” is a belief held by many Americans that the United States is both unique and exemplary when compared to its world neighbors, a “shining city upon a hill,” ...

If you’re looking for hints and answers for Strands for Thursday, June 5, 2025, read on—I’ll share some clues and tips, and finally the solution to the puzzle with the theme “Mary, Mary, quite ...” ...

To The Contrary is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and ...