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Each week, Richard Brody picks a classic film, a modern film, an independent film, a foreign film, and a documentary for online viewing. “Daisy Miller” Photograph from Everett Peter Bogdanovich films Henry James’s novella “Daisy Miller” with an acerbic humor…
In 2016, when the Danish restaurateur Claus Meyer opened his new-Nordic restaurant Agern inside New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, he decided that, in adherence to Danish tradition, the restaurant would not accept gratuities. Instead, Meyer set Agern’s prices high…
Alaskan businesses can no longer pay workers with disabilities less than the state’s $9.84 minimum hourly wage. The Alaska Department of Labor last week repealed a decades-old regulation that allowed employers to get an exemption to pay workers with disabilities…
The architects of Hillary Clinton’s agenda are moving toward Bernie Sanders’s vision for universal health care — a step that shows how far the Democratic Party’s center has shifted on policy since the 2016 primary. On Wednesday, the Center for…
Yet another fire has been attributed to virtual currency mining efforts, this time in the Siberian city of Tomsk. A Tomsk resident had set up a virtual currency mining farm in his flat and presumably created a short circuit, which resulted in a…
Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to put about 12,000 small satellites into low earth orbit, in a bid to develop the internet service-related technologies. A video of the launch of a SpaceX rocket with two experimental satellites on board has…
