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The Trump-Russia scandal had a series of newsworthy but confusing developments over the weekend, as several different stories appeared to move forward and yet backward. The BuzzFeed News claim that President Donald Trump told Michael Cohen to lie to Congress…
The Supreme Court still hasn’t announced whether it will take up a lawsuit over President Donald Trump’s effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. And that’s big news. It means the court probably won’t take the…
Finding the best ways to do good. Made possible by The Rockefeller Foundation. Here’s a wild statistic: The 26 richest people on earth in 2018 had the same net worth as the poorest half of the world’s population, some 3.8…
In November 2017, a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci painting was put up for sale at Christie’s semiannual, invitation-only evening auction. The work, called Salvator Mundi, was the star of the night: It sparked a 19-minute-long bidding war between two anonymous…
In 1953, Bertolt Brecht wrote a poem, “The Solution,” in which he satirized the East German government, wondering whether it should “dissolve the people and / Elect another?” The same might apply to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
Munster second row Tadhg Beirne is set to miss the opening two games of Ireland’s Six Nations campaign with a knee injury. Beirne was named man-of-the-match in Munster’s 9-7 Champions Cup win over Exeter on Saturday but was forced off…
