Priscilla M. Jensen

Priscilla M. Jensen on the sisterhood of the spiral-bound cookbook.

Priscilla M. Jensen pays a visit to Miss Flannery.

What we can learn about modern Russia from a century-old massacre.

How Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko was forced to fake his death.

Priscilla M. Jensen, at the fair.

"Ura!" tweeted the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta April 5.

Keeping up with the news out of Russia has been like trying to drink from a firehose for at least the last month, though that would be seriously inadvisable considering what might have been added to the water.

The roll-out Monday of the White House budget proposal revealed a $1.5-trillion infrastructure plan, the expected funding to address the opioid problem, and, of course, funding for border security initiatives, including the southern border wall. But it’s a controversial revision of a USDA program…

From time to time I’m forced to confront the ugly little corollary to my heart-leaping, car-singing, year-round love of Christmas music. Forced usually by Muzak, and more times than ought to be strictly necessary by enthusiastic choirs at midnight mass, I admit that there are Christmas songs that I…

From time to time I’m forced to confront the ugly little corollary to my heart-leaping, car-singing, year-round love of Christmas music. Forced usually by Muzak, and more times than ought to be strictly necessary by enthusiastic choirs at midnight mass, I admit that there are Christmas songs that I…

Sten Skiöld was a week shy of 9 years old on "Högertrafikomläggningen" (right-hand traffic diversion) or H-Day, September 3, the momentous Sunday in 1967 when all the road traffic in Sweden halted a little before dawn. When it started up again, Sweden had gone from driving on the left to driving on…

Thomas More—knight and saint—is a familiar figure in the popular imagination. His speech to William Roper about giving even the devil the benefit of law—"What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? ... And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on…

In a move that apparently surprised everyone, including his family and colleagues, Venezuelan authorities released political prisoner Leopoldo Lopez in the middle of the night on July 8. Lopez, a prominent democracy activist who has long challenged the authoritarian socialism of Hugo Chávez and his…

Vladimir Kara-Murza, 35, Russian political activist and journalist, has been hospitalized in Moscow "with symptoms similar to those he had two years ago," sudden kidney failure and related problems, said his wife Evgenia Kara-Murza on Thursday.

Late in August, during the run-up to Ukraine’s 25th Independence Day, Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Russian Security Council in Sevastopol, Crimea. Before and since, the Russian defense ministry has overseen military exercises in the region, as well as naval maneuvers by the Black Sea Fleet.…

According to the Irish Independent, the number of Americans requesting Irish passports has increased by 14 percent since their Scottish cousin Donald Trump joined the presidential race last summer. Correlation doesn't mean causation, of course, but more than a few people have remarked upon the…

Multiple outlets are reporting that a young woman intercepted in Cameroon on Friday claims to be one of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram from Chibok, Nigeria, in April 2014. Some reports say the girl—one of two arrested in northern Cameroon on Friday 25 March—turned herself in…

Walter! Thou shouldst be living at this hour—

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