HISTORICAL FACTS: 2 | History Defined

8 of the best Bruce Springsteen tracks to test your hi-fi system

Prepare for the new biopic

What Hi-Fi? · Oct 29, 2025

‘I tried to be nice. Sometimes I would explode’: John Fogerty on Creedence, contracts and control

As the driving force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival, he wrote some of the 60s’ most enduring songs. But a poor record deal followed by years in the wilderness drove him to the brink of breakdown. Now 80, he looks back

The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2025

A Route 66 ghost town was ‘frozen in time’. Is it on the verge of a comeback?

Newberry Springs was almost lost to the desert. But as America’s ‘mother road’ turns 100, locals see hope that the boom times could return

The Guardian - US · Jul 20, 2025

Can you sleep your way to better decision making? Here’s what the science says

The author John Steinbeck said: “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” Many others have claimed they formulated breakthroughs and innovations in dreams. Recent studies on the science of sleep suggest these…

The Conversation · Nov 11, 2024

Mom and child jumped from a window to escape a deadly Las Vegas fire that killed four

Authorities say two adults and two children were found dead in the charred rubble of a southwest Las Vegas house fire

The Independent UK · Oct 25, 2024

Steinbeck plundered her work for "Wrath"

Migrant camp worker Sanora Babb wrote what could have been the era's definitive book. Instead she became a footnote

Salon · Oct 15, 2024

‘A huge loss’: is it the end for the ship that helped us understand life on Earth?

The Joides Resolution has contributed to our understanding of climate crisis, the origin of life, earthquakes and eruptions. But funding cuts mean it may have sailed its last expedition

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2024

Expert calls out JD Vance "poornography"

Vance is no pauper — and there’s a bit of a shell game going on when it comes to his poverty credentials

Salon · Aug 13, 2024

JD Vance is no pauper − he’s a classic example of ‘poornography,’ in which the rich try to speak on behalf of the poor

JD Vance has climbed to his current position as former President Donald Trump’s running mate, in part, by selling himself as a hillbilly, calling on his Appalachian background to bolster his credentials to speak for the American working class.

The Conversation · Aug 13, 2024

The week in theatre: Death of England: The Plays; Grapes of Wrath; Please Right Back – review

Thomas Coombes and Paapa Essiedu grip in an all too timely revival of Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s state-of-the-nation monologues. Plus, slow-motion Steinbeck and 1927’s latest flight of fancy

The Guardian - UK · Aug 4, 2024