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Fox News can usually be counted on to staunchly support President Donald Trump and his administration. But on Tuesday, network executives publicly rebuked the White House’s move to banish CNN reporter Jim Acosta from the White House. Fox News president…
When scientists first recognized Neanderthals as a species slightly different than our own, the species was demonized. The first Neanderthal skeleton, reconstructed in 1911, was nicknamed the “Old Man of La Chapelle” and described as a wretched creature: hunched over,…
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has been apologizing since before the company’s inception — and yet problems continue to mount. The latest development is a New York Times story detailing Facebook’s behind-the-scenes efforts to downplay and deny a string of recent controversies,…
This year’s Country Music Awards began on Wednesday night with Garth Brooks—who, at fifty-six, inhabits the role of country music’s wise elder statesman—calling for a moment of silence to honor the memory of the twelve people who were gunned down…
Just before midnight on Saturday, November 3rd, the pop auteur Ariana Grande unexpectedly released a new single, the twinkling “thank u, next.” Unannounced song drops are less surprising than inevitable in pop music these days, and not all of them…
Leningrad in the nineteen-seventies was a closed, stultifying world all to itself, a microcosm of the Soviet Union: a universe of muted grays and beige, where nothing much seemed to ever change. An artist who existed outside the system had…
