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Over the last thirty-five years, asset manager mega-giants BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard have accumulated unprecedented levels of stock ownership in virtually every major US company. Voting th ...

Before preparing this essay, I began where many Americans seem hesitant to tread: with the poetry. I read and reread every poem I could find by Ted Hughes, as well as the slender oeuvre of Sylvia Plat ...

Two weeks ago, the British House of Commons voted in favor of a bill that, according to the BBC, "would allow terminally ill adults expected to die within six months to seek help to end their ow ...

Vivek Ramaswamy's critique of American culture ignited a firestorm on X -- and people are taking away the wrong lessons from the exchanges. In Ramaswamy's post, he nodded to the 2014 ...

Six pages into his latest contribution to the literature of recovery, William Cope Moyers tells us that the ...

Upon the hills in LA where dreams are sown every day,The fiery winds have fiercely blown.Torn so many from their home.A golden land, now wreathed in flame,Which government is to blame.Where whispers c ...

Picture this, because it really happened: Dwayne Johnson stands in an IMAX theater, taking Christopher Nolan's seat.

Religiosity in America, measured in denominational affiliation and church attendance, has never been lower. Over the past decades, a growing culture of atheism (and non-denomi ...

In conversation with a friend who is well versed in neologism, the discussion often returns to Franz Kafka. Trace the roots of any word back far enough and you'll find historical context largely ...

I've been drinking raw milk for almost 15 years, ever since I made a sudden switch from veganism while visiting my sister in Europe. At the time, she was living in Germany and getting raw milk from a ...