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The ability of racial preferences to stigmatize black achievements first hit home for me in college in the early 1990s. Just before the start of my senior year, I received a job offer from the local n ...

WWE has mastered a nifty magic trick. The company simultaneously announces record revenues while its flagship event, WrestleMania 41, struggles to sell tickets for the upcoming Easter weekend. This is ...

Soren Kierkegaard once remarked that we can never be reminded too often that a man existed named Socrates. Agnes Callard's Open Socrates thus comes as a particularly timely reminder. Callard is ...

In late May, Kermit the Frog gave a commencement address. He did so at graduation ceremonies for the University of Maryland, alma mater of the late Jim Henson, the father of the Muppets. From his very ...

A Contemporary Tragedy in a Classic StyleFour New Yorkers' paths collide in the days ahead of the 2016 election. Dan teaches Marxism while secretly courting a student. His girlfriend Mariko, an a ...

Last year, Charli XCX lit a neon-green fire under the pop world with Brat -- a brash, chaotic album that redefined what pop could sound like in 2024. The summer became dominated by the British si ...

Excerpted from Stop All the Clocks. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher, Arcade Publishing. "I was raised in South Florida," Marcos said once Mona had finished. He di ...

Akari was on the couch, scrolling Instagram. Her body was small, but she was very toned and lean from yoga and pilates classes, so she appeared longer than she was. And though her eyes were cast down,

Over the years, I've talked to a lot of people who got hit by Bert Cooper. Inventive standards had to be devised to measure what had happened to them, because being hit by Bert Cooper didn&rsquo ...

On a sunny day in Alexandria's historic Parker-Gray neighborhood, I knock on the door of a large brick house painted yellow with green trim. "You're right on time," says R. Emm ...