And why brutalism dominates US college campuses. When you look at college campuses across the US, you’ll see massive concrete buildings everywhere. Many of these are designed in a style of architecture called “brutalism,” and it’s as divisive as it is distinctive. Brutalist buildings strive for honesty and transparency in their form and materials. This often means using simple materials like raw untreated concrete as well as using bold geometry.... Read more ›
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Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone in The Curse. | Beth Garrabrant/A24/Paramount+ with SHOWTIMEWhat to know about the new collaboration between Nathan Fielder, Benny Safdie, and Emma Stone. Few things are more irksome than the contemporary impulse (I think we can blame it on Lost) to decode every TV show as though it’s a puzzle to be solved instead of a story to be savored. But sometimes a close reading is... Read more ›
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A wounded girl waits for treatment at al-Shifa hospital on November 5, 2023. | Bashar Taleb/AFP/Getty ImagesMultiple hospitals have closed due to airstrikes and lack of fuel. Others are struggling to stay open. As Israel steps up its air raids and ground assault in its ongoing war against Hamas, the medical situation in Gaza is growing more and more dire, with the north’s major remaining hospitals warning they’ll soon run... Read more ›
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A guest looks at a rifle at the Palmetto State Armory booth during the National Rifle Association’s Annual Meetings & Exhibits at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis on April 16, 2023. | Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesDemocrats need to be smarter while the GOP controls the Supreme Court. Every now and then, the Supreme Court takes up a case involving a public official who acted so foolishly —... Read more ›
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Supporters of Hezbollah wave flags as they watch a televised speech by its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in Beirut, Lebanon, on November 3, 2023. | Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty ImagesHezbollah and other Iran-backed groups support Hamas but haven’t opened new fronts. In his first public statement about Israel’s war with Hamas, Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday indicated that the Shia militant group — though supportive of Hamas’s bloody October... Read more ›
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Actor Lily Gladstone and director Martin Scorsese on the set of Killers of the Flower Moon. | AppleTV+For Indigenous people, there are few simple feelings about Scorsese’s take on the Reign of Terror. Growing up, Welana Queton never talked about the Reign of Terror with outsiders. As a young girl, Queton learned about the protracted murder spree which saw the deaths of more than 60 Osage Natives between 1918 and... Read more ›
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Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty ImagesWorldwide protests denounced Israel’s strikes on Gaza, which hit refugee camps and ambulances The Israel Defense Forces have attacked multiple civilian targets in the last week — including refugee camps and an ambulance convoy — killing more than 200 Palestinians, according to government sources in Gaza, as Israel prosecutes its war against Hamas. The IDF targeted the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, which has... Read more ›
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Getty Images/fStopMore American adults than ever say they likely won’t have kids, although we’re still a minority. I’m what researchers call an “early decider” when it comes to kids: I’m one of the lucky ones who has always known I don’t want them. The sound of a baby crying makes my muscles tense, and whenever someone passes me their toddler, I hold them out in front of me with rigid... Read more ›
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Students protesting the Israel-Hamas war call for a ceasefire in Gaza. | Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty ImagesA First Amendment lawyer argues the university’s role in a crisis should be shutting up. The Israel-Hamas war has brought the long-simmering debates over free speech on college campuses to a boiling point. If school leaders released statements, they were criticized — for not denouncing Hamas and antisemitism or for ignoring the Palestinian... Read more ›
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Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty ImagesHezbollah and other Iran-backed groups support Hamas, but haven’t opened new fronts In his first public statement about Israel’s war with Hamas, Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday indicated that the Shia militant group — though supportive of Hamas’ bloody October 7 attack on Israel — wouldn’t be opening up another front in the war just yet. Hezbollah, which the US and other countries have... Read more ›
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An Israeli army self-propelled artillery howitzer moves past waiting traffic while crossing a road along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on November 1, 2023 amid ongoing battles between Israeli forces and Hamas. | Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty ImagesWhat history can — and can’t — tell us about the hope for a Gaza ceasefire. The last time that Israel and Hamas engaged in hostilities that had the... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden speaks from the Rose Garden at the White House on September 1, 2023. | Anna Rose Layden/Getty ImagesBiden has a Plan B for student debt. Will it survive the Supreme Court? For as long as he’s been president, Joe Biden has been vexed by student loans. His primary opponents pushed him to endorse mass loan forgiveness legislation during the 2020 campaign, then pressured him in the days... Read more ›
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Julia Child prepared scallops in her kitchen in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 16, 1975, on her Garland gas stovetop. The gas range became almost as iconic as the chef herself, featured in a Smithsonian exhibit today. | Ulrike Welsch/Boston Globe via Getty ImagesDocuments reveal the untold story of how the natural gas industry infiltrated American’s kitchens through the beloved chef. For years on her popular cooking show, The French Chef,... Read more ›
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Spent shells fly out of an AK-47 fitted with a bump stock. The bump stock is a device that allows a semiautomatic to fire at a rapid rate much like a fully automatic gun. | George Frey/Getty ImagesThe justices will decide if bump stocks, devices that effectively convert a semiautomatic gun into an automatic weapon, are legal. The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear Garland v. Cargill,... Read more ›
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Hezbollah supporters rally ahead of the 2022 elections, raising flags and a portrait of the group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah. | AFP/Getty ImagesWhy would Hezbollah enter the fight against Israel? The leader of Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Islamist militant organization and Lebanese political party, has not ruled out escalating its ongoing fight against Israel as that country expands its ground operations in Gaza. In a highly anticipated televised speech Friday, Hassan Nasrallah... Read more ›
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Jaz Sinclair as Marie Moreau, a superhero with gory powers, in Gen V. | Amazon StudiosGen V’s season-long satire of college sports, superheroes, and capitalism comes to a wicked end. We love to send superheroes to school. The X-Men came together at Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. The Fantastic Four’s Future Foundation and at least three academies — the short-lived Teen Titans, the magically inclined Strange, and the comic... Read more ›
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Sam Bankman-Fried attends court this summer in a federal case that accused him of fraud, conspiracy and other charges. | Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe criminal conviction of the once-lionized cryptocurrency billionaire will have ripple effects on the entire industry. After just a few hours of deliberation, a New York jury on Thursday convicted Sam Bankman-Fried of fraud and conspiracy in the public flameout of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX,... Read more ›
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Steve Jenkins/Esther the Wonder PigHow Esther the Wonder Pig put a face to factory farming. Esther the Wonder Pig — a world-famous pig who was one of the few of her kind to escape the fate of the factory farm and slaughterhouse to live life on her own terms — died peacefully last month, at 11 years old. Her life as a pet pig, extensively documented on social media, helped... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesA crisis of confusion is making health care more expensive for many Americans. Of all the culprits that make it harder for Americans to afford and access health care, the sheer confusion many patients experience when trying to select an insurance plan or when faced with an expensive medical bill may be the most overlooked. That’s according to a recent survey from research firm Perry Undem, which reveals the... Read more ›
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In the past few years, Airbnb prices — and guest complaints — have sharply risen. | Getty Images/iStockphotoFinancially, the sharing economy darling is thriving, but guests, hosts, and cities have had enough. Airbnb knows people are unhappy. Its CEO, Brian Chesky, has acknowledged the “tens of thousands” of complaints across social media about the platform’s growing costliness. It knows that hosts’ expenses — like home insurance, property taxes, and the... Read more ›
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