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In 1919, the young E.B. White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr. Strunk ...

That’s a lesson that, according to a Twitter post, a teacher recently passed on to a child. In context, the lesson seems a little less atrocious: The teacher was talking about the first sentence in a ...

Young people make mistakes all the time, and young Hongkongers aren’t excluded from that. In February, a 15-year-old girl was imprisoned for nine years for trafficking the drug ketamine. Last year, a ...

R. Kelly dodged an effective life sentence Thursday when a Chicago judge tacked on just one extra year to his 30-year punishment behind bars. The 56-year-old disgraced R&B singer was sentenced in his ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. TIM PALMER: A study from the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research challenges the ...

Timothy Ferris, in The Science of Liberty: In 1900 there was not a single liberal democracy in the world (since none yet had universal suffrage); by 1950 there were twenty-two. Tyler Cowen at Marginal ...