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Women Must Be Invited to Shape Afghanistan’s Future

In May 2022, nine months after the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan, I visited a girls’ secondary school that was…

The Voices of A.I. Are Telling Us a Lot

What does artificial intelligence sound like? Hollywood has been imagining it for decades. Now A.I. developers are cribbing from the…

Amid Challenges, Small New York City Museums Are Closing Their Doors

One quarter of all cultural institutions are dipping into their reserves or endowments to cover operating expenses. Mergers may be…

Experimental Films Fuel ‘Slave Play’ Documentary

The playwright Jeremy O. Harris’s “Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.” wears its intellectual references on its sleeve.

Volcanoes, Vines, Freedom: Exploring Gay-Friendly Lanzarote

“Lanzarote is a place of secrets and mysteries,” the Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar once said of the place he used…

Napoleon’s Loot: When the World Decided Stolen Art Should Go Back

As museums encounter increasing claims on their collections, experts say much of the debate hearkens back to 1815, when the…

Time Traveling Through London With an Impressionist Painter

In the early 1870s, an émigré painter watched from a railway footbridge as a steam engine left a station on…

The Tiniest Words Generate the Biggest Uproar

As a linguist, I pay close attention to debates about language. But I won’t be telling you anything you don’t…

Friday Briefing

Biden stumbled in the first 2024 debate.

How Would You Rate the Presidential Debate?

Our writers and editors are formulating their thoughts on Donald Trump and President Biden’s first debate of the 2024 presidential…

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