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Among the oddities to unpack from a most unusual first day of the new Congress is that Rep. Kevin McCarthy might have seen something like this coming, back when the last Congress was just a few weeks old. In the…
The start of the 118th Congress may be remembered for the already historic, and ongoing, vote to elect a new House speaker — which, for the first time in a century, is taking multiple rounds and multiple days. But there…
The abortion pill mifepristone is safe enough that retail pharmacies can begin dispensing it so long as a certified health care provider prescribes the
The eighteenth-century Swiss artist Henry Fuseli was known for his grotesque and outlandish depictions of mythological and supernatural subjects. His most celebrated painting, “The Nightmare,” which was exhibited to considerable excitement at the Royal Academy’s gallery in 1782, shows an…
The end of 2022 offered up a trio of movies by name-brand directors that are about the world of movies: precocious D.I.Y. filmmaking in Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” behind-the-scenes classic Hollywood in Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon,” and even the work and…
Allow me to thank the algorithm. At some point during the depths of the pandemic, YouTube started hinting very strongly that I might want to check out the TikTok comedian Caitlin Reilly. It was right. After watching one of her…
