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I was lured into “Terrace House” by rumors of its unusual tranquillity. The series, which originated on Japan’s Fuji TV, in 2012, and is now co-produced by Fuji and Netflix, is a reality show marked by the absence of showiness.…
“Arthur Miller: Writer,” a new HBO documentary about the playwright’s life and work, was produced and directed by Miller’s daughter Rebecca, who collected footage for it for over twenty years. Often, she was able to shoot from intimate or rarified…
On March 8th, International Women’s Day, when McDonald’s flipped its arches and Vladimir Putin expressed “our enchantment” with women’s “beauty and tenderness,” Emily Wilson, the classics scholar and translator of Homer, spent part of the day on Twitter. In sentences…
At first glance, March 19, 2018 seems like just another day on the calendar. In fact, it’s anything but ordinary. Today marks the 15th anniversary of the most disastrous U.S. foreign policy decision since President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 escalation in…
President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attacks on federal law enforcement turned even more vindictive over a series of jarring events last weekend. The drama began with the late Friday night firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe just 26 hours before…
In the wake of Democrat Conor Lamb’s upset victory over Republican Rick Saccone in Pennsylvania’s deeply conservative 18th Congressional District this week, the GOP has yet another thing to worry about: Democrats have a 10-point advantage over Republicans in congressional…
