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Winter Olympic ice sports are possible due to this one fact: Ice is slippery. The low friction of ice is why speedskaters can reach 35 mph, why figure skaters can twirl in dizzying circles, and why a 40-pound curling stone…
The gray skin in Michelle Obama’s portrait feels at first like a loss, and then like a real gain. © Amy Sherald The former First Lady Michelle Obama’s decision to commission the Baltimore painter Amy Sherald for her official portrait…
Obama is seated, the chair resting, one assumes, on a soft, unseen bed of soil. But the bottoms of his shiny black shoes simply float. © Kehinde Wiley I keep coming back to a bit of skewed perspective near the…
This article originally appeared at Antiwar.com Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in trying to placate his far-right coalition on delaying an effort to
If you want to understand how little President Donald Trump has done so far on the opioid epidemic, just read this paragraph from his 2019 budget plan: At first read, this might sound impressive. Trump not only created a commission…
Senate Democrats eyeing the 2020 presidential ticket have been consistent on one message for months: They’re willing to shut down the government over DREAMers. Since the fight over the lack of a long-term spending bill and immigration deal began in…
