We media types obsess about America’s problems. But we should acknowledge that today, life in America is better than life has ...

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

For most of history, the norm was hunger, disease, illiteracy, slavery and war. There were a few exceptions (from some of those problems) -- so-called golden ages, Ancient Athens, Rome, the ...

Here’s a game I like to play with friends when we go out for Italian dinners, and there’s a lull after the antipasto: guess ...

Powerful empires throughout history have risen by mastering warfare, governance, trade, and culture, leaving legacies that ...

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, in modern-day Turkey, was an ornate memorial built for Carian ruler Mausolus and overseen by his sister-wife Artemesia II.