“I am vast, I contain multitudes,” goes one oft-quoted line from “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman. In the American…
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While it’s easy to assume that getting into the White House to cause trouble is nearly impossible, free tours are…
It’s difficult to overstate how often the phrase “land of opportunity” gets bandied about in regards to the USA. It’s…
Sometimes here at AIW there’s a news item that is begging to be written about. Other times we go searching…
Unusual deaths have been recorded for about as long as people have been recording things. For example, in 3200 B.C.…
Iowa – home of more pigs than humans and that glorious black dirt – could soon also be the home…
Capital punishment in the United States has a long, complicated, and gruesome history, and, well, its methods had to start…
Americans born between about 1975 and 1995 will unquestionably remember the Beanie Babies crazy of the late 1990s. It was…
June 18, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte’s retreat at Waterloo, signaled the end of his empire and the beginning of his exile.…
People are complicated. While in our hearts we know that it’s true, it can be a lot of fun to…