Labor Day. In America, this holiday is more often associated with barbeques, sales, and the farewell to summer and white linen than with the contributions of workers. By design, it’s a less overtly political holiday than the workers’ holidays in Europe—the U.S. intentionally picked a day other than the International Workers’ Day of May 1^st to avoid any whiff of radicalism.

The summer’s whizzed by and so has JWA’s fiscal year (which ends September 30^th). As that date approaches, we’ve been taking a hard look at the numbers.

More than half a century after the August day in 1944 when Ruth Gruber coaxed reluctant refugees off the bus—told they would be taken to the sho

On August 22, 1893, a child was born who would make the world a decidedly wittier place.