The American sports world is inextricably intertwined with the political arena. Championship teams in the US’s four major sports leagues—Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), a...
Unanswered questions and unspoken words are common in grief: A man who has lost his wife may sit by himself in his home and whisper words he never got to say, and a daughter grieving for her father may play back his voicemails to hear his voice again...
Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center and Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University, reviews depictions of epidemics in Twilight (2008), The Last of Us (2023), Outbreak (1995), and Contagion (2011), and discusses how they relate to real...
If the Nobel Prize in Literature was established to celebrate words that empower, then the Swedish Academy’s selection of Bob Dylan is long overdue. In the past fifty years, one would be hard pressed to find an individual — presid...
If the Nobel Prize in Literature was established to celebrate words that empower, then the Swedish Academy’s selection of Bob Dylan is long overdue. In the past fifty years, one would be hard pressed to find an individual — presid...
Perhaps the most defining characteristic of racism in the United States is its pervasiveness. It goes beyond personal attitudes and seeps into almost all institutional functions. Environmental policy and regulation is subject to these same discrimina...
Perhaps the most defining characteristic of racism in the United States is its pervasiveness. It goes beyond personal attitudes and seeps into almost all institutional functions. Environmental policy and regulation is subject to these same discrimina...
Dr. Joyce Banda served as the first female president of Malawi from 2012 to 2014 and founded the People’s Party in 2011. Prior to serving as president, Dr. Banda was the first female vice president of Malawi. She is the founder of the Joyce Banda F...
Dr. Joyce Banda served as the first female president of Malawi from 2012 to 2014 and founded the People’s Party in 2011. Prior to serving as president, Dr. Banda was the first female vice president of Malawi. She is the founder of the Joyce Banda F...
The gay community represents one of the most loyal and ardent voting blocks for the Democratic Party, and despite this election cycle’s unpredictable and unprecedented nature, polling suggests that 2016 will be no different. With a Republican platf...
The gay community represents one of the most loyal and ardent voting blocks for the Democratic Party, and despite this election cycle’s unpredictable and unprecedented nature, polling suggests that 2016 will be no different. With a Republican platf...
Few Americans remember Amelia Bloomer, the fabled feminist who introduced women to the phenomenon of pants. In the 1850s, coinciding with the early American women’s suffrage movement and the Seneca Falls convention, Amelia Bloomer set new standards...
Few Americans remember Amelia Bloomer, the fabled feminist who introduced women to the phenomenon of pants. In the 1850s, coinciding with the early American women’s suffrage movement and the Seneca Falls convention, Amelia Bloomer set new standards...
“Separating the art from the artist” is an almost impossible — yet arguably necessary — strategy many fans and critics must employ to enjoy artistic beauty created by flawed human beings. People yearn to idealize art as an untarnished embodim...
“Separating the art from the artist” is an almost impossible — yet arguably necessary — strategy many fans and critics must employ to enjoy artistic beauty created by flawed human beings. People yearn to idealize art as an untarnished embodim...
Eight Days a Week a recently released documentary, directed by Ron Howard, sheds light on the early touring years of The Beatles as they played across America for the first time. The four mop-topped bandmates, John, Paul, George, and Ringo, were wit...
Eight Days a Week a recently released documentary, directed by Ron Howard, sheds light on the early touring years of The Beatles as they played across America for the first time. The four mop-topped bandmates, John, Paul, George, and Ringo, were wit...
Last week, the International Criminal Court found Islamic militant Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi guilty of war crimes and sentenced him to nine years in prison. Al-Mahdi now joins the ranks of Jean-Pierre Bemba, Germain Katanga, and Thomas Lubanga Dyilo as ...
Last week, the International Criminal Court found Islamic militant Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi guilty of war crimes and sentenced him to nine years in prison. Al-Mahdi now joins the ranks of Jean-Pierre Bemba, Germain Katanga, and Thomas Lubanga Dyilo as ...
Since being elected three months ago as president of the Philippines with 39 percent of the vote, Rodrigo Duterte has publicly called for the killing of drug users and sellers. To date, over 2,500 people have been killed, for the most part extrajudic...
Since being elected three months ago as president of the Philippines with 39 percent of the vote, Rodrigo Duterte has publicly called for the killing of drug users and sellers. To date, over 2,500 people have been killed, for the most part extrajudic...
On August 17, Omran Daqneesh, a five-year-old Syrian boy, narrowly survived a Bashar al-Assad-backed airstrike in Aleppo. Overnight, a still from the video taken of Omran in the back of an ambulance was shared thousands of times on social media. Befo...
On August 17, Omran Daqneesh, a five-year-old Syrian boy, narrowly survived a Bashar al-Assad-backed airstrike in Aleppo. Overnight, a still from the video taken of Omran in the back of an ambulance was shared thousands of times on social media. Befo...
The busy, relentless lives of those living in New York and New Jersey were disturbed recently by two terrorist bombings, which sent two dozen people to the hospital and a wave of terror throughout the United States. Both attacks were carried out by a...
The busy, relentless lives of those living in New York and New Jersey were disturbed recently by two terrorist bombings, which sent two dozen people to the hospital and a wave of terror throughout the United States. Both attacks were carried out by a...
In June, Donald Trump said, “We don’t know anything about Hillary in terms of religion. Now, she’s been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there’s nothing out there.” Trump’s assertion is widely supported, yet presents an inte...
In June, Donald Trump said, “We don’t know anything about Hillary in terms of religion. Now, she’s been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there’s nothing out there.” Trump’s assertion is widely supported, yet presents an inte...