A dozen liberal, Jewish New Yorkers traveled to rural Michigan to stay in the homes of a dozen conservative corrections officers, whom they’d never met, to try to...
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Benedict Cumberbatch Is a Spy With Soul in The Courier—But He’s Not the Only Reason to Watch
The trappings of spycraft we see in the movies—the tiny cameras, the furtive code words uttered into pay phones, the trench-coated figures darting about in the...
One of the largest observances in the world, Earth Day (April 22) is celebrated by over 1 billion people each year as a day of action to inspire change in...
Bernard L. Madoff, a boy from Queens who went on to perpetrate one of the most infamous frauds in Wall Street history, died Wednesday in a federal prison, according to...
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FDA and CDC Recommend Pausing COVID-19 Vaccination With J&J-Janssen Shot While They Investigate Blood Clot Risks
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are recommending that vaccinations with the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19...
When shots were fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, the Civil War began—and so did a new era in American photojournalism. But even though the conflict was the...
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Migrants in Latin America Have Turned to Delivery Gigs During the Pandemic. But Drivers Say They’re Facing Hostility and Mistreatment
When Quito entered lockdown in March 2020, the streets of Ecuador’s hilly Andean capital didn’t quite empty out. A small army of cyclists and motorbike...
As the world mourns the passing of the Queen’s devoted husband, we reflect on Philip’s amazing life and legacy, revealing how it was his vision that modernised the...
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Joss Whedon’s Confusing, Overcrowded The Nevers Indulges in the Laziest Habits of TV’s Dickens Obsession
There was a time, not so long ago, when to describe a television show as Dickensian was to pay it the highest possible compliment. The Wire is the classic example...
In the early 1960s, Americans were becoming more aware of the effects of pollution on the environment after Author Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring,” a...
