Central America has long been a source of immigrants, and in recent years, it’s also become a major transit route for those from around the world heading to the United States. That shift led to record numbers of immigrants arriving at the US border, and contributed to the supposed crisis that helped Donald Trump win…
I come into the kitchen to find my husband staring into space, which is normally my job. Then he points. “It’s time to accept we aren’t bread-bin people,” he says. I believe, instinctively, ancestrally, in bread bins; I come from bread-bin stock. But since we acquired ours five years ago, it has been used probably…
NFL players make their pitch to Myles Garrett to join their team Justin Jefferson, Rome Odunze, and David Montgomery and Jahmyr Gibbs pich Myles Garrett to come to their team after requesting a trade from Browns. Sports Seriously The 2024 NFL season is fully in the rear view after the Philadelphia Eagles won Super Bowl…
Just when in history did the nebulous notion of “pop culture” as we know it actually begin? And what particular person or event kicked it off? Were there any D-list celebrities to venerate in the ancient world, for instance? RobertosMitch, via email Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com. Readers reply The Romans were no strangers to…
It’s taken me a while to get around to any of the titles from DSTLRY, the relatively new publisher of creator-owned comics, but I finally jumped in this week with the series Warm Fusion, and wow are we off to a good start. Warm Fusion is described as “a dark, sci-fi thriller, mixing the body…
Rail passengers in England and Wales face a steep increase in the cost of travel from Sunday, with fares rising by 4.6% and most railcards going up by £5. The government said the rise is needed because of the dire financial state of the railway, but transport campaigners contrasted it with Labour prolonging the freeze…