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A few months ago, when Tom Brady was beginning his career as an N.F.L. commentator for Fox Sports, a commercial aired. It ...

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Social media is no longer just a tool for politicians to get out their message; politicians now have to shape themselves into ...

This 1976 documentary reveals a startling range of passions in the final days of three terminally ill patients.

Garth Hudson, who played organ, accordion, saxophone, and more as a member of the Band—perhaps still the group that best ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in an E.S.L. classroom in Iran, examines the internal displacements of learning a ...

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With the announcement of this year’s Oscar nominations, the members of the Academy have, in effect, responded to the natural ...

The true cost of the immigration policy can be measured in the generations of Chinese Americans who were never born.