The Midwest

For three months in the spring and summer of 1993 rain pounded the Mississippi River basin relentlessly. From Minnesota to Missouri, rivers …

In early autumn of 1903, something bizarre and terrifying happened in the town of Van Meter, Iowa. People have been talking about …

There are innovations that, when we first experience them, are so striking, so clearly a terrific idea, that we cannot conceive of …

Eighty-nine-year-old Marjorie Congdon has been called both a sociopath and a psychopath. The terms are not interchangeable. Sociopaths have a conscience, but …

Face it. There are some things you are not permitted to do. For example, you cannot perform surgery without a license. You …

When the squadron leader gave the signal, we hurried forward, crouching and firing, trying to get to an overturned cable spool where …

Clark Kent is resigning from the Daily Planet.  Times have changed and Kent doesn’t appreciate the tabloid-like direction the paper is taking. …

The years 1944-1960 saw the greatest expansion of the American economy we may ever know. They saw the end of Second World …

At around 3:25pm on April 5, 2010 Rex Mullins and Nick McCroskey were working 1000 feet underground at the Upper Big Branch …

On Jefferson Avenue near downtown Detroit there’s a restaurant called Dr. Dre’s Open Pit and Bait Shop whose name pretty much says …