Israel has an intense communal, can-do spirit that keeps the country united and its economy innovative
Carl Natale
Web editor for SunJournal.com
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Accept our king, our god — or else: The senseless ‘requirement’ Spanish colonizers used to justify their bloodshed in the Americas
The Requerimiento, a 16th-century document, sheds light on the deeper ideas and laws that the Spanish used to take over the New World.
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Columbus who? Decolonizing the calendar in Latin America
Many U.S. states and cities have renamed Columbus Day as Indigenous People’s Day. But wrestling over the explorer’s legacy has a longer — and even more fraught — history in Latin America.
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Seven times people discovered the Americas — and how they got here
Columbus’ was the last of at least seven discoveries of the Americas.
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Grocery chains are bigger than ever. Here’s a look at the market.
The traditional supermarket industry has shrunk as big-name grocers acquired their smaller rivals. Here are the chains that dominate near you and across the U.S.
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What the Kroger-Albertsons merger could mean for you
The retail giants have proposed the biggest supermarket merger in U.S. history.
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Small grocers feel squeezed by suppliers, and shoppers bear the pain
Independent grocery stories, often lifelines in small, rural communities, try to scrape by on smaller margins while bigger rivals get better deals from wholesalers.
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The second assassination attempt on Donald Trump in 64 days is a troubling turn of events
The arrest of a suspect in a possible attack reflects a disturbing development in American politics.
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‘One inch from a potential civil war’ — near miss in Trump shooting is also a close call for American democracy
A scholar of political assassinations says the U.S. just narrowly avoided plunging into wholesale violence and potential civil war when Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt.
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Why has our political rhetoric gotten so violent and incendiary?
Democracy benefits from constructive, nuanced political discourse. But the lures of extreme, polarising rhetoric are often too great.