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Foam soup containers are stacked in a New York restaurant, Feb. 14, 2013.

City Council Approves Ban On Polystyrene Foam

Despite stiff opposition from restaurant owners, a divided San Diego City Council Monday tentatively approved a ban on the use and distribution of polystyrene foam products, such as egg cartons and food service containers.

Getting 'The Band' Together: Questions For Nicholas Eames

Author Nicholas Eames's series The Band is a joyous mashup of classic rock and fantasy tropes — because if there were monsters, why wouldn't there be bands of celebrity mercenaries to slay them?

A rendering of the SDSU West project, April 27, 2018.

Passage Of Measure G Would Allow San Diego State To Expand Into Mission Valley

SDSU boosters are promoting Measure G — SDSU West — to allow the university to buy a portion of the Mission Valley stadium site to build an auxiliary campus.

Sam Richman, owner-chef of Sammy's Deluxe restaurant in Rockland, says his patrons tend to prefer full-grown unagi smoked, European style, rather than as Japanese sushi.

Will Americans Embrace A Zeal For Eel? This Maine Entrepreneur Hopes So

Most catches are exported to unagi-loving Asian nations, which pay up to thousands of dollars per pound. But one woman is raising and marketing eels for U.S. buyers: "Why not keep that value at home?"

U.S. Capitol (left) and the White House in Washington, D.C.: Our Greyhound bus arrived in D.C. early on a Monday morning. This was our first stop on the road trip. I felt particularly vulnerable wearing a bakhu when I saw Make America Great Again hats bobbing in the distance, but by the end of the day, I had forgotten I was wearing it.

Redefining The Bakhu—And The Great American Road Trip—Through Self-Portraiture

A photographer confronts the childhood discomfort she felt wearing traditional Mustangi clothing in public by traveling across the country and posing for portraits in them.

Blue And Red Companies: How CEO Activism Is Reshaping Workforce Politics

More workers are demanding their leaders take stands on hot-button issues, and some CEOs don't shy away from the controversy. But they also must navigate the risks and benefits for their workforce.

Rowers paddle down the Charles River near Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on March 7, 2017.

Does Harvard Treat Asian-American Applicants Unfairly? The Case Goes To Trial

A federal lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in Harvard University's admissions process goes to court this week. It could have big consequences for higher education.

Firearms are exhibited at the annual NRA convention in Dallas this past May. RJ Young's book <em>Let It Bang</em> examines the NRA's relationship with race through his personal, unexpected interest in guns.

The 'Young Black Man' Who Reluctantly Became An NRA-Certified Instructor

RJ Young developed an interest in guns in order to bond with his white father-in-law. The experience is chronicled is his new book, Let It Bang.

Katrin Ebner-Steiner (center), regional leader of the Alternative for Germany, celebrates with party co-leader Alice Weidel (right) as election results roll in Sunday in Mamming, Germany.

Merkel's Allies Falter In Regional Elections, As Rivals Gain On Left And Right

The German chancellor's center-right sister party has long been a juggernaut in Bavaria, but it didn't look like it Sunday.

A mass for a canonization ceremony of Pope Paul VI and the martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, as well as five other people, was in St Peter's Square at the Vatican, on Sunday.

Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI Elevated To Sainthood

In a ceremony at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican, Pope Francis declared the sainthood of the murdered Salvadoran archbishop, the former pontiff and five other people.

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