- The click-clack of typewriters is making a nostalgic comeback at Gramercy Typewriter in NYC.
- The shop attracts a lively mix — young people, poets, collectors and international tourists rediscovering analog writing.
- NBC's Christine Romans featured the trend on Sunday Spotlight, highlighting the charm of analog in a digital age.
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- A star-studded "In Pursuit" series for the 250th anniversary features essays by George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama and others on 43 presidents and 30 first ladies.
- Writers skipped appraising Trump and Biden as "too fresh," yet pieces (like Bush on Washington and McChrystal on Grant) echo modern concerns about restraint, loyalty and concentrated power — easy conversation fodder.
- Curated by Colleen Shogan (who was later fired by Trump), the project has drawn big public interest — over 1 million Substack views — and will become a PBS documentary.
- AI plus particle‑accelerator imaging let researchers virtually “unroll” Herculaneum scrolls — one entire scroll was read and 70+ columns recovered from another without physically opening them.
- The team uncovered previously unknown works, including an eight‑book series by the philosopher Philodemus, allowing scholars to read full arguments rather than fragments.
- The Vesuvius Challenge competition helped spur the breakthrough, but more than 600 carbonized scrolls remain unread — experts and crowdsourced efforts are still needed.
- At the Nixon Presidential Library, VP JD Vance said Watergate would be "a 12-hour news story" in today's media cycle.
- He drew parallels between Nixon's ouster and what he calls "deep state" efforts against Donald Trump.
- Promoting his new book "Communion," Vance noted similarities between himself and Nixon—young senator/vice president, bestselling author, and widely criticized by the media.
- Strabane-born John Dunlap left for America at 10 and printed the first ~200 copies of the US Declaration of Independence (the famous "Dunlap Broadsides").
- He also fought alongside George Washington and backed the Revolutionary War financially—so he contributed beyond printing.
- Only 26 original broadsides survive; Dunlap was recently honored with a blue plaque in Strabane and featured on an Irish commemorative stamp.
- Sen. Raphael Warnock appeared on Meet the Press to promote his new book, "The Crooked Places Made Straight."
- He’s urging Democrats to examine their character and conduct in politics, calling for greater moral accountability.
- The interview invites a broader, easy small-talk topic: how values and responsibility should shape political parties.
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