A litmus test is an idiom for a challenge. But why? In a 2024 New York Times piece exploring the controversy over married couples in Japan using separate surnames, the Times headline read: "A Litmus ...

The road that leads to Kentucky Derby 152 is full of twists and turns. The ability to navigate the highway that ends at the starting gates on the first Saturday in May is a multi-part test. These ...

The Mets are now in the midst of consecutive weekends in which they will play the Cubs, Yankees and Dodgers. And if this is a nine-game litmus test against fellow major-market powers that will take ...

CYPRESS — After chasing the presumptive 2-year-old champion Ted Noffey and a $3 million colt named Brant in his earlier races, Litmus Test faced a decidedly less star-studded field in the Los Alamitos ...