I didn’t pin it as grief at first, the feelingof imagining placing myselfin the path of that truck, but of courseit was grief, grief for myselfin the future—not being arounddown the road to feel it, I had to startfeeling it now, I had to make sure I would not leave the world with my feelingsunfinished, […]
In March 2021, as the New York winter refused to quit and tiny husks spread across my skin, plastering first my elbows, then my upper arms, underarms, eyebrows, eyelids, nostrils, and shins, I booked a room at a cheap hotel in Nassau for a week. I was in the Bahamas nominally to renew my US […]
To understand the attempted coup that culminated in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, it is useful to go back to Donald Trump’s immediate response to the election he actually won, in 2016. The head of his transition team, Chris Christie, then governor of New Jersey, presented Trump with a detailed plan […]
In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf imagined “what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister.” She concluded that any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage outside the village, half witch, half […]
Last summer a group of scholars announced that they had cracked Linear Elamite, a Bronze Age script used in the trading cities of Elam in the highlands of southern Iran, through which Central Asian tin, a crucial ingredient in bronze, was transported north to the Mesopotamian kingdoms of Babylon and Assyria.1 First identified by archaeologists […]
In 1936 Alfred Barr, director of the Museum of Modern Art, drew a flowchart of recent art developments to accompany “Cubism and Abstract Art,” one of the museum’s defining exhibitions. Printed on the catalog cover and styled with the look of empirical rigor, the diagram outlines a complex and seemingly inexorable momentum from figuration, at […]
In December 2008, as he prepared to assume the presidency, Barack Obama shared a provocative observation with Nancy Pelosi about the American system of government. The United States Senate, Obama told her, had in some ways “outlived its purpose.” In Obama’s reckoning, the Senate had altogether too much clout and too often served to diminish […]
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It’s starting to look more like a hockey rink and less like a baseball stadium as the Penguins and Bruins get ready for next week’s 2023 Winter Classic.
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Marlon Vera thinks Aljamain Sterling isn’t playing by the spirit of the rules.
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What a year, huh? In one respect, 2022 was the year the blockbuster returned, with movies like Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way Of Water and albums such as Renaissance and Midnights reviving pop culture after some pandemic-induced doldrums. However, the year also saw plenty of pain; the world said goodbye to a…
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From record heat to an ice storm, with a tornado outbreak in between, 2022 brought a lot of wild weather to Central Texas. Here's a look back at some of the biggest weather stories of the year.
Portland has been through it this last week, to say the least. PDX encountered wind gusts between 40-50 mph, plus 4.6" of rain since Saturday.
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva and their family members have attended the opening of Shabran Wellbeing Resort in Shabran district. The head of state, the First Lady and their family members viewed conditions created at the complex
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Layoffs, lawsuits, delays, Twitter chaos, stock in free fall, factory shutdowns — What happened to America’s favorite electric car company?
Читать дальше...Recent developments in diagnostic tools and treatment options have given more time to patients confronted with terminal and advanced-stage cancer diagnoses.
KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Paul Whelan behind bars in Russia
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This week, we look back at 2022’s biggest consumer tech stories. Then, we offer our predictions for what the next 12 months will bring.
What does a taco-slinging food truck have in common with a seafood restaurant where the catch of the day is flown in from Boston and Honolulu? A German restaurant that revels in its kitsch with a university-adjacent storefront that’s got some of the best sushi in town? An order-at-the-bar burger joint with a suburban winery that offers vino recommendations for each of its seasonal entrees?
After initially arguing with Thunberg via Twitter, the controversial media figure uploaded a video of himself mocking the activist over climate change.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket produced a vibrant show when it launched in the pre-dawn sky from Florida, at 4:34 a.m. EST (0934 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Dec. 28.
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The Odyssey Beyond Wars program, set to start next fall, will help veterans contextualize their military experiences with humanities courses.
