Articles by Dan Lewis

If you’re unfamiliar with the item pictured above, it’s Silly String — liquefied plastic compressed [...]

The term “government bailout” emerged in the collective consciousness in 2008, when the U.S. government [...]

On the southern shore of eastern Cuba is Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a small outcrop of land and sea controlled by [...]

1) “Inside the Shadowy Business of Prison Phone Calls” (International Business Times, 13 [...]

If you ask a musician about flying with their instruments, what you’ll invariably hear is how bad of an [...]

The population of Detroit, as of the 1950 U.S. Census, was approximately 1.85 million people, accounting [...]

Starting in the 1630s and lasting for more than two centuries, Japan’s foreign policy was one of strict [...]

On September 1, 1905, the government of Canada officially created the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta, [...]

Air travel can be fun — and it can be maddening, too. One of the more frustrating aspects is the [...]

When Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, died in 1924, Winston Churchill summed up his [...]