Somehow completely forgot that this meeting was happening, despite having set no fewer than three iCal reminders about it.

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And so she put down her microphone, for a time, to embark on a new career as a producer and a d.j. In the world of electronic ...

During his tenure with the Reagan Administration, Abrams was involved in supporting authoritarian regimes in Guatemala and El ...

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Will Keen and Michael Stuhlbarg, the stars of the play “Patriots,” about the rise of the Russian President, studied how Putin ...

The philosopher and gender theorist has been denounced, demonized, even burned in effigy. They have a theory about that.

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Politicians despise it. Administrators aren’t defending it. But it made our universities great—and we’ll miss it when it’s ...

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People who think seriously about the use and abuse of nonhuman creatures often end up calling for changes that might seem ...

The Still Picture Branch of the National Archives contains the glass-plate negatives of the real Civil War, including those ...