In America, Hot Springs was the place to “take the waters,” its chief rivals being Saratoga Springs, New York, and the ...
For Jarvis Masters, resilience has been the key to survival. The story of his life has become an inspiration to people around ...
Kazunari Ninomiya does a compelling job of expressing the increasing bewilderment of the man as he loses his composure and ...
Cheever reinforced his brand as the “bard of the suburbs” (most particularly, Westchester County, where many of his ...
For Hungarians, Péter Magyar’s emphatic defeat of Viktor Orbán ends 16 years of corruption and quasi-authoritarianism.
A recurring theme in the film is whether Amy Goodman is a journalist or an activist. Is it possible to be both?
Many nights, Spooks turn on their shortwave radios and drift through the frequencies. On any given night, one can hear amateur radio stations broadcasting church sermons, utility traffic for aircrafts ...
On a sweltering summer day in 2013, a single tweet from Tahrir Square sparked a global conversation. Armed with nothing but smartphones, Egyptian protesters captured the raw energy of a movement that ...
There’s an interesting dissonance between changing times and values. Younger generations typically push the cultural envelope at first, then decry the generations that follow as they age. What remains ...
Charlie Chaplin made audiences laugh, but he also made us feel. His films often balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fine line between sentiment and sentimentality.” ...
Journalistic writing presents itself as a neutral container: a clean pane of glass between the public and the world. Facts go in; facts come out; and whatever meaning we take from them is our own. But ...
Since October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel, news coverage by the most prominent U.S. outlets of Israel's assault on Gaza and its Palestinian inhabitants has provided more propaganda than ...