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A hundred and eight years ago, the International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen voted to honor the struggle against male oppression by creating an International Women’s Day, now held every year on March 8th. If the celebration represented a…
Imagine being governed by both the center-left and center-right, and you’ve got the idea behind the Grand Coalition (GroKo) in Germany. The Social Democrats (SPD) have teamed up with the conservatives after two thirds of them agreed to the GroKo,…
Thomas Cole (1801-1848) was the leading American painter of his generation and at the front of what became known as the Hudson River School of landscape artists. Currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “THOMAS COLE’S JOURNEY: ATLANTIC CROSSINGS” emphasizes…
The most striking thing about the much-hyped Texas primaries is how ordinary they actually were. That was the message from the Texas Tribune’s Evan Smith, who has been following the state’s politics for the better part of three decades, when…
Stock market investors don’t love the idea of a Gary Cohn-less White House. Markets opened lower on Wednesday morning, the day after the National Economic Council director announced plans to resign. He was widely considered Wall Street’s most important ally…
Leading Russian and foreign space medics and biologists have found a way to protect the human body from the deleterious effects of cosmic radiation to make humans more immune to this phenomenon. The discovery is critically important as it makes it…
