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By all accounts, the new Superman film has been a major success. Released on July 11, 2025, it grossed $122 million on its opening weekend, marking the biggest debut ever for a standalo ...

Combating our current scourge of loneliness and social isolation must be seen as a societal imperative. Platitudes about togetherness won't do; we need action items. A new survey ...

The instruments of darkness tell us truths ~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth Preface Paterson, NJ Paterson is often described as physically static; a time warp rooted by a skyline of once vital mills. So ...

Marlon Brando was a great man: a genius, a visionary, a generational talent, and perhaps the best actor to ever live. Few would disagree, claiming it self-evident. But the latest biopic on Brando&rsqu ...

In the age of modernity, we find ourselves confronting a familiar affliction: bleakness. Our lives are marked by disillusionment. We doom-scroll, our eyes glazed over, while once useful dopamine recep ...

You know you are winning when powerful people become hypocrites to claim they agree with you. That's how free speech advocates should view Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber's Terms ...

"I guess my fantasy has always been that things can be reasonable, that life can be arranged in sensible, pleasant ways. But it can't; I always underestimate the destructive element in human ...

This week marks the seventh anniversary of the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. This anniversary should also mark the day a United States Senator betrayed his oath to the Constitu ...

Connecticut's leaders are considering a risky play: using taxpayer and pension funds to keep the WNBA's Connecticut Sun in-state. It may sound like an investment in community pride, b ...

Tuesday, 4 November 2025 Edison bulbs hung low over the reclaimed-wood table at a popular Brooklyn hangout. A chalkboard listed the Yuletide Farm-to-Table Specials: Roast Chicken with Rosemary ($31),