A Historic Name In American Trucks Wants To Build A New $21,500 Pickup
Loving the idea of Slate’s affordable electric truck but not the idea of electric power? A company called REO Industries is looking to challenge the Slate with something nearly as basic for even less money. REO’s slogan is “build it like it used to be” and that’s exactly what it wants to do: build a […]
Battlefield 6 Season 3 Blastpoint Interview: Battlefield Studios’ Ariel Giovannetti on Cairo Bazaar, Obliteration as American Football, and Battlefield’s “Emotional Truth
Battlefield 6 spent the opening act of Season 3 making a very loud argument about scale. Railway to Golmud, the season’s first major map, reset expectations for the game’s largest environments as an enormous, vehicle-saturated reimagining of the beloved Battlefield 4 original, with more airspace and flanking routes for flavor. But Blastpoint, Season 3’s second […]
The American V16 That Was Too Expensive For The Depression
Looking back, you might guess that cars were still a rare luxury during the Great Depression. In truth, more than half of American families had access to an automobile by 1929, and we had nine cars on the road for every 10 households. The automotive revolution took place over the course of the 1920s. By […]
3 Forgotten American V8 Wagons That Are Future Collectibles
The V8 engine may be an endangered species today, but for several decades these eight-cylinder powerplants were a symbol of American motoring. Large, noisy, and powerful, they embodied the idea of road-trip freedom, powering anything from sports cars to family haulers. The V8-powered wagon was formerly a common way to get around America from the […]
10 American EV Startups Went Bankrupt, Proving Toyota’s Skepticism Justified
The electric car industry was, for a little while there, the new gold rush. It was relatively easy to get public or private funding for promising battery-powered vehicles like the Fisker Ocean, infrastructure support was growing, and investors were terrified of being left out of the next big thing. In retrospect, it’s obvious that this […]
Every American Needs to Know What Happens at 3 p.m. on Memorial Day
It started in a cemetery after the Civil War. It took a century to become a federal holiday. Now it’s the last Monday in May, and at 3 p.m., the whole country is asked to stop. Memorial Day is Monday, May 25, 2026. It is a federal holiday, the last Monday in May, and the […]
Coast Guard Seizes Sailboat of American Woman Who Vanished in Bahamas
The U.S. Coast Guard has reportedly seized the sailboat at the center of a Bahamas mystery after a Michigan woman vanished more than a month ago. The boat, named “Soulmate,” had been docked in the Bahamas since a Michigan woman, Lynette Hooker, disappeared April 4 near Hope Town and Elbow Cay, ABC News reported Monday, […]
US Battery Startup Thinks American Cars Can 'Leapfrog' China – With Some Help From Germany
An American EV battery startup thinks that it can help get US automakers in their struggles against China. This isn’t a plan to just catch up, however. The CEO of Factorial Energy said in a recent interview that playing copycat to try and get to the same level isn’t enough. Instead, US automakers need something […]
Remembering Army Veteran Jim Whittaker, First American to Climb Mount Everest
Jim Whittaker, the Army veteran and mountaineer who became the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest, died Tuesday at his home in Port Townsend, Washington. He was 97. Whittaker died peacefully with his wife, Dianne Roberts, and other family members at his side, according to a statement from the family released by […]
The No Gun Ri Massacre: When American Soldiers Killed Hundreds of South Korean Refugees
Around noon on July 26, 1950, several hundred South Korean villagers sat on a railroad embankment near the hamlet of No Gun Ri. American soldiers had ordered them there, searched their belongings, and promised safe passage south. Then the soldiers left. Planes suddenly strafed the crowd of men, women, and children. The survivors scrambled for […]