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There’s a strange dimension to the Republican campaign to push through Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, on top of a credible accusation of sexual assault from his days in high school, which Kavanaugh denies. It’s their insistence…
For most of us, apartment dwellers and city types, houseplants are an admission of defeat. We look wistfully at plants in the supermarket—tendrils and fronds, furry flaps, spines and holes and soft neon shoots—persuading ourselves that they might bring us…
In 2001, when I was a freshman at Columbia, a close friend, a student of architecture who is now a professor of geography, took to trawling nasty comment threads online. He was an admirer of the neoclassicism of the Chicago…
Anybody who plans on seeing “Life Itself,” stop here—almost anything said about the film risks being a spoiler, because its real subject is death itself. In this excruciatingly contrived and ill-conceived multigenerational saga, the writer and director Dan Fogelman (the…
It’s every scientist’s worst nightmare: six papers retracted in a single day, complete with a press release to help the world’s science reporters disseminate and discuss the news. That’s exactly what happened Wednesday at the journal network JAMA, and to…
BRUSSELS (Sputnik) – The World Trade Organization will consider China’s bid to target $7 billion worth of US imports in a years-long trade row, a source in Geneva told Sputnik. “The WTO arbitrator will look at the Chinese request for reciprocal measures…
