Day: December 8, 2024

The stunning downfall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leaves not merely a vacuum of power in that country but a...

This article contains spoilers for the film The Seed of the Sacred Fig.When the film The Seed of the Sacred...

When Hamas’s Yahya Sinwar launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel on October 7, 2023, he intended to deal a decisive...

NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage TeamDay 8 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a mysterious nebula. Details of a...

Paul Mescal isn’t known for being funny. In breakout dramatic turns such as 2020’s Normal People and 2022’s Aftersun, the...

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Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield met during the first week of graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania in 1978....

As Hemingway once wrote of bankruptcy, the collapse of autocratic regimes tends to happen gradually and then suddenly—slowly, and then...

This was supposed to be the year that political reform took off. A nearly $100 million campaign gave voters in...

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