Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Update (May 8, 2014): PBS will rebroadcasting Life on Four Strings starting on May 9, ...

Kim Meyer never met an acronym she didn’t like. Faith stands for “full assurance in trusting him,” and trust stands for “totally rely upon Savior’s timing.” Every letter of nearly every word has a ...

Shakespeare had his lute players, August Wilson had his jazz musicians, and Aaron Posner has his ukulele girls. Or as he calls them, his “ubiquitous ukulele girls.” And to be fair, he also ...

On this date in 1925, Canada's Ted Rogers began selling a revolutionary radio -- one that didn't require a big, expensive, throwaway component. The Rogers' Batteryless radio could be plugged right ...

Its frisky four strings are the sound of Elvis’s “Blue Hawaii,” of Tiny Tim tiptoeing through the tulips and lately, beyond all reason, of a popular “Bohemian Rhapsody” cover. Above all, the humble ...