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Scott Kelly did not mutate into a genetic freak during his year living aboard the International Space Station. You might have gotten that impression last week, though, when several news outlets wrongly reported that 7 percent of the astronaut’s genes…
In April of 1980, when Bob Marley arrived to headline the independence celebrations that would see Rhodesia become Zimbabwe, his song “Zimbabwe,” the centerpiece of the “Survival” album, was the most popular foreign song in the country. Marley, whose religion…
There’s a retrospective of the actor Michel Piccoli taking place at Film Forum right now, and another, of the director Agnès Varda, that will alight at Museum of the Moving Image this weekend, but the movie in which the twain…
In seventh grade, my English teacher, Mr. Grubbs, suggested that I audition for a local revival of “Take Me Along,” the 1959 musical adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s “Ah, Wilderness!” He recommended that I read the original, so I checked the…
Here, in short, is President Donald Trump’s new plan to combat the opioid epidemic: more punishment, fewer prescriptions, and more treatment. On Monday, Trump unveiled a new batch of policies for tackling the opioid epidemic in a speech in New…
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) has teamed up with Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) to offer a bill to — in their words — “stabilize individual market premiums.” It comes at a moment when there is a lot of uncertainty around how…
