Barely a month after handing down the majority opinion that erased the right to abortion, Justice Samuel Alito traveled to Rome to give a keynote …
Continue readingI Was Injured by a White Supremacist in Charlottesville. Strangers Lifted Me Up.
In July 2017 a friend told me that white supremacists planned to go to Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee …
Continue readingThe Climate Bill Isn’t Perfect, but It’s Still a Major Victory
In an ideal world, the climate provisions now making their way through Congress as part of the Inflation Reduction Act would directly reduce …
Continue readingAmerican Literature Loses Out to Consolidation
OXFORD, Miss. — Penguin Random House, the largest English-language trade book publisher in the world, has made an offer to acquire Simon …
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“Want to make $200 in an hour?” reads the anonymous text, and Emily (Aubrey Plaza) absolutely does. On her own, in her thirties and out of …
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“Secret Headquarters,” from the directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, is in essence a superhero movie designed for children — a lighthearted …
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Animal lovers will find a bittersweet watch in “Free Puppies!,” a documentary on volunteer rescue groups working to adopt dogs in areas of the …
Continue reading‘The Princess’ Review: An Unsparing Look at Princess Diana
The first clue that “The Princess” will not be your standard-issue Diana Spencer documentary is that the director is Ed Perkins. Perkins’s last …
Continue reading‘We Are Living Things’ Review: The Truth Is Out There
Do you want to believe? Solomon (Jorge Antonio Guerrero) does — he already believes that his own mother was abducted by space aliens — which is …
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