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Philadelphia has become the US epicenter of squash and home to Team USA.

Golf is one of a handful of sports that reward low scores, not high ones. That means getting around the course efficiently and not wasting strokes.

Photography possesses a certain built-in bluntness that can lend itself to images that are destabilizing and dryly funny.

Springsteen initially hated the album so much that he tossed a test pressing into a pool. But its operatic tracks about freedom and fate, triumph and tragedy, continue to resonate today.

If a machine creates a video or a song that brings a person to tears, does it matter that the machine felt nothing?

The folktale, 'The Bird Indifferent to Pain,' offers insight into why audiences are drawn to the relentless jester - a comedic trope that has endured across cultures.

The Civil Rights Movement is often told in terms of court decisions, brutal beatings and racist demagogues. It's rarely told from the view of children, who suffered in ways that left emotional scars.