Francisco Fortín was attacked by gangs wielding machetes in his home country of Honduras, he said, an act of violence that cemented a decision to quit his impoverished and trouble-plagued homeland.

A fierce debate has erupted over Sunday retail operations at the American Dream Complex in East Rutherford, as Bergen County ...

And so it was amusing, over time, to discover how all-American, and almost theatrically ... first came to Lynch in a dream. He paid attention, and that’s one part of his genius.

But that wouldn’t keep his work from becoming ubiquitous in conversations about the American dream. Thanks to later biographers, Alger’s life story has become clearer. He was the son of a ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- You can now dig into authentic Middle Eastern food at Arabian Palace; a new restaurant on Sprague Avenue run by a family with a remarkable backstory. Abdul Kareem and his family ...

The #sueñoamericano—the American Dream—was mentioned everywhere in their videos. It was the subject of the song lyrics they danced to and the captions they wrote, and it was the impulse ...

Our conversations deepened as Mark was researching his next book, “Chasing the American Dream: Understanding What Shapes Our Fortunes.” We realized that both of us could bring something unique ...