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Donald Trump has so dominated the news over the past decade that it is hard to imagine American politics without him. Yet now we are in the last 27 months of his presidency. And as this year ends and the next approaches, the national...
I’ve had hexes put on me by a university professor, had online vigilantes send packages of dogshit to my childhood home in New Jersey and been hounded by the trauma-informed journalists of the New York Times. CNN, Reuters, Agence...
American women’s most listenedto podcast is Call Her Daddy. It is hosted by the glamorous Alex Cooper, whose shtick is grilling female celebrities on their sex lives. For example, she made Gwyneth Paltrow rank all her boyfriends according to...
Before they proved it was a killer, before everyone agreed it was disgusting, before they made you feel like a dreadful person unless you were David Hockney and therefore forgiven, before then, d’you remember how lovely it was? How...
In the fall of 2017, Virginia was going through its quadrennial tradition of giving the nation an electoral check-in on the president by holding an off-year gubernatorial election. The nation’s mood was, to say the least, heated. Four...
They are all young in this photograph, looking so happy to be there for a special occasion, the camera held steady and the light falling on cue. It just had to be recorded. Somebody would have said ‘I’ll get prints made if you give me your...
The French Revolution remade not only France but Europe, some 230odd years ago. Even Napoleon’s final defeat at Waterloo was not really the end of what the rebellious Estates General had set in motion in 1789. The Revolution proved that an...
