Thornical Press

  • Washington and African Union Target Critical Minerals and Digital Growth

    Washington and African Union Target Critical Minerals and Digital Growth

    By Thornical Press January 28, 2026 In a significant move to reshape the diplomatic and economic landscape between Washington and the African continent, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf met today at the African Union Commission headquarters to reaffirm the enduring importance of the U.S.-Africa relationship.…

  • British Government Unveils Biggest Veterinary Reform in 60 Years

    British Government Unveils Biggest Veterinary Reform in 60 Years

    By Thornical Press January 27, 2026 The British government has unveiled the most significant overhaul of the veterinary sector in six decades, promising to slash costs for millions of pet owners and modernize a system that officials say has become…

  • Hochul Announces $38 Million to Fortify Emergency Communications

    Hochul Announces $38 Million to Fortify Emergency Communications

    By Thornical Press – January 15, 2026 Governor Kathy Hochul announced a major investment in public safety today, awarding more than $38 million in state funding to 17 counties and New York City. The grants, aimed at improving emergency communications…

  • U.S. Imposes Sweeping Sanctions on Iran Amid Crackdown on Protests

    U.S. Imposes Sweeping Sanctions on Iran Amid Crackdown on Protests

    By Thornical Press – January 15, 2026 The United States government announced a sweeping new round of sanctions against the Iranian regime on Wednesday, citing a worsening humanitarian crisis and the systematic repression of citizens seeking basic civil liberties. The…

news

  • British Government Unveils Biggest Veterinary Reform in 60 Years

    By Thornical Press January 27, 2026 The British government has unveiled the most significant overhaul of the veterinary sector in six decades, promising to slash costs for millions of pet owners and modernize a system that officials say has become…

  • U.S. Imposes Sweeping Sanctions on Iran Amid Crackdown on Protests

    By Thornical Press – January 15, 2026 The United States government announced a sweeping new round of sanctions against the Iranian regime on Wednesday, citing a worsening humanitarian crisis and the systematic repression of citizens seeking basic civil liberties. The…

  • Hochul Announces $38 Million to Fortify Emergency Communications

    By Thornical Press – January 15, 2026 Governor Kathy Hochul announced a major investment in public safety today, awarding more than $38 million in state funding to 17 counties and New York City. The grants, aimed at improving emergency communications…

architecture

  • Fraunces Tavern: Tavern, Museum, Memorial

    By Thornical Press – December 4, 2025 Fraunces Tavern sits at the corner of Pearl and Broad Streets in Lower Manhattan like a weathered storyteller, its brick and timber face a counterpoint to the glass towers that now define New…

  • A Modern Prelude: The Charnley House’s Construction and Materials

    By Thornical Press – December 3, 2025 The Charnley House was commissioned by lumberman James Charnley and completed in 1892 by the office of Adler & Sullivan, with the young Frank Lloyd Wright playing a significant role in the design;…

  • Life in the Bailey

    By Thornical Press – November 16, 2025 The bailey is the beating heart of an English castle, an open courtyard whose ordinary appearance masks a complex choreography of daily life, military logic, and symbolic power. Early chroniclers and modern historians…

  • Roman Brick for Contextual Design

    By Thornical Press – November 8, 2025 Roman brick—the long, low-profile brick type inspired by ancient Roman prototypes—has carved an unlikely but enduring niche in American architecture. Its appeal is less about novelty than about a particular visual logic: elongated…

  • Ornament and Restraint: The Material Case of the Winslow House 

    By Thornical Press – November 2, 2025 The Winslow House in River Forest, Illinois stands as Frank Lloyd Wright’s first major independent commission and a decisive moment in the emergence of the Prairie School. Built in 1893–94 for William H.…

  • Sunlit Battlements: Roquetaillade Through Time

    By Thornical Press – October 21, 2025 Perched on a limestone spur in the rolling countryside south of Bordeaux, the Château de Roquetaillade reads like a condensed history of French fortification and taste. What stands today is the result of…

History

  • Tanistry: A Celtic System of Power, Kinship, and Continuity

    By Thornical Press – January 11, 2026 Tanistry was a distinctive Gaelic system of succession that shaped political life in medieval Ireland and Scotland for centuries. Far more complex than a simple rule of inheritance, it functioned as a cultural…

  • The King’s Oath: Promissio Regis

    By Thornical Press – December 24, 2025 The promissio regis, literally “the king’s promise,” is the formal oath taken by English and later British monarchs at their coronation. Far from being a mere ceremonial flourish, it has functioned across centuries…

  • Workplace Culture in GDR State Enterprises 1980–1988

    By Thornical Press – December 16, 2025 The years 1980–1988 in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) were a period of relative surface stability and growing strain beneath it. In state enterprises (Volkseigene Betriebe, VEBs) the routines of production and the…

  • The Democratic Classic: Taste, Care, and the Model A 

    By Thornical Press – October 20, 2025 The Model A established a new design grammar for Ford: clearer silhouettes, defined surfaces, and a shift from exposed mechanics to contained form. The hood and radiator surround became a vertical focal point,…

  • Trabant: DDR Status Symbol

    By Thornical Press – October 19, 2025 The Trabant feels like a pocket-sized time machine, a little plaster-and-steel relic that smells faintly of petrol and old upholstery and carries an entire vanished nation’s patience in its modest frame. Introduced in…

business & economics

  • Goldman Sachs: From Pine Street to Global Powerhouse

    By Thornical Press – January 15, 2026 The story of Goldman Sachs is more than just a corporate history; it is a mirror of the evolution of modern capitalism. For over 150 years, the firm has navigated industrial revolutions, world…

foreign policy

opinion

  • American Agriculture and National Security

    By Thornical Press – January 1, 2026 United States Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins’s announcement advancing Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA) modernization and tightening the BioPreferred Program is a decisive and overdue move that puts American farmers and national security first. For too long, gaps in oversight have left our agricultural land and…

  • Return of the Shah? A Call for a Constitutional Monarchy for Iran

    By Thornical Press – December 31, 2025 There is a conversation Iran must have about the shape of its future: how to secure liberty, protect citizens from state abuse, and build institutions that can withstand the temptations of power. One proposal that deserves serious consideration is the restoration of a constitutional monarchy under the Shah…

Militaris

  • Forged in the Marshalls: USS Johnston’s Rise to Valor

    By Thornical Press – January 7, 2026 The USS Johnston (DD‑557) entered the world quietly on 25 March 1943, sliding down the ways at the Seattle‑Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation. She was one of 175 Fletcher‑class destroyers built during the war, but…

  • Typ 82E: Der Militarisierte Käfer

    By Thornical Press – December 15, 2025 The Volkswagen Type 82E was a wartime adaptation of the civilian Volkswagen Beetle (KdF‑Wagen) developed to meet specific military needs during World War II. Unlike the more widely known Kübelwagen Type 82 —…

  • Infantry Tank Mark II (A12) Explained

    By Thornical Press – December 8, 2025 The Matilda II — officially the Infantry Tank Mark II (A12) — stands among the most iconic British armored vehicles of the Second World War. Built to a doctrine that separated slow, heavily…

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