Goetz’s sense that his own safety was endangered gave him—and people like him—the right to enact violence with impunity. The Daily News and the New York Post led the way, reporting the story as a ...

One Saturday afternoon in December 1984, a man got onto the number 2 train going downtown at West 14th Street in Greenwich Village. Blond, glasses-wearing, and scrawny, he did not fit anyone’s ...

They've done it again: Lua Brewing claimed the No.1 spot for best brewpub in the country in the USA TODAY 10BEST Readers' Choice Awards. When Lua topped the list in 2025, the staff there bought their ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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Heather Ann Thompson is a professor of history at the University of Michigan and the author of “Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage.” In broad ...

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Topsy turvy. In/out. Up/down. Left/right. What, which, how our country is today, who knows. I only know what it was when it worked. Newspapers wrote recently about the “subway vigilante” — 1984’s ...

Without Trumpism, Democrats and anti–Donald Trump conservatives tell themselves, America can once again be the nation it always was. This political moment, many feel certain, is an aberration, an ...

This insightful if dense history from Pulitzer Prize winner Thompson (Blood in the Water) revisits the infamous 1984 New York City subway shooting of four Black teenagers by white 37-year-old Bernhard ...

ICE agents approach a house before detaining two people on Jan. 13, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) Immigration and Customs Enforcement is “trying to automate ...