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VATICAN CITY — Retired Pope Benedict XVI’s second secretary came out with a new memoir Thursday, a light, photo-filled daily journal that sharply contrasts with the bombshell tell-all book published last month by the late German pope’s main assistant. “My…
It's been a presidency defined by contradictions: soaring inflation alongside record-low unemployment, promises of international cooperation interrupted by turmoil and threats, stagnant politics punctuated by bipartisan breakthroughs — all with vows of common purpose offset by sharp reminders of divisions.…
President Joe Biden said America needs to "finish the job on police reform" during his State of the Union address Tuesday night. "I know most cops and their families are good, decent, honorable people. The vast majority. They risk their…
In 2012, when Steven Soderbergh and Channing Tatum released “Magic Mike,” a moist, underlit caper about male entertainers at a Tampa strip club, they thought they were making an indie. Instead, the film grossed a hundred and sixty-seven million dollars,…
Last year, a Tennessee-based artist named Kelly McKernan noticed that their name was being used with increasing frequency in A.I.-driven image generation. McKernan makes paintings that often feature nymphlike female figures in an acid-colored style that blends Art Nouveau and…
Burt Bacharach, who died on Wednesday, wrote in his heyday in the nineteen-sixties so many permanent hits that it’s hard to recall what an original songwriter he was. Alec Wilder, in his great book “American Popular Song,” though generally disapproving…
