Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Robert Kelly is managing director of ...

Oct 24 (Reuters) - European rating agency Scope downgraded the United States' credit rating by a notch on Friday, citing sustained deterioration in public finances and a weakening of governance ...

Just when I thought the trend of short, fast, illuminated rifle scopes was cooling, a new class of excellent low-power variable optics revived my affection for these do-everything scopes. The new ...

The cover of "The Hundred Years' Trial" and author Harold Gouzoules (top) and Alexander Gouzoules (bottom). (Courtesy of Johns Hopkins University Press, Emory University and Samantha Xia) One hundred ...

DAYTON, TN – Inside a sweltering courtroom in July, a fierce debate was underway here in this small Tennessee town. Modern science versus religion and the battle over what is taught inside America’s ...

In July 1925, the small town of Dayton, Tennessee played host to one of the most high-profile trials of its day. It became known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, and it pitted science versus religion in ...

One hundred years ago, on July 10, 1925, the trial of John T. Scopes began. It concluded 11 days later with a conviction. Today, this battle in the conflict over religion and science in United States ...

“When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, / the moon and stars that you set in place — / What is man that you are mindful of him, / and a son of man that you care for him?/ Yet you have made ...

O n July 10, 1925, a 24-year-old high-school teacher named John Scopes was put on trial in Dayton, Tennessee for the crime of teaching Darwinian theory. He’d violated the newly passed Butler Act, ...

Mr. Kazin is a professor of history at Georgetown University. In July 1925, John Scopes faced a jury in a stifling courtroom in Dayton, Tenn. A 24-year-old teacher, he stood accused of violating the ...