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Abortion Pills Will Be the Next Battleground in America After Roe

As conservative states began to pass more laws restricting access to surgical abortions, more patients opted for the pills, especially since they can be taken in the privacy of one’s home. The Covid pandemic has fueled this trend. The Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that promotes abortion rights, reported In 2020, drug abortion accounts for …

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‘I Love America’ Review: The Gauche Rituals of Modern Romanticism

After years of Americans seeing romantic epiphanies on screen in Paris, “I Love America” returns for favor by releasing Sophie Marceau on Tinder in Los Angeles. Marceau plays Lisa, a 50-year-old filmmaker and mother of two loving daughters who are attempting a personal reset by leaving France. Originally broadcast in France, this is a decidedly …

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First Issue of Captain America Comics Sold for $3.1M

Barry Sandoval, vice president of Heritage Auctions, said in an interview late Thursday that the sales were driven by a resurgence of interest in superheroes, which can be attributed to blockbuster movies and the Covid-19 pandemic, which has fueled the desire for collectibles. In February 2010, Heritage sold its first comic for more than $1 …

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How Is America Monitoring the Nuclear Attack?

In late February, Russian President Vladimir V. Putin declaration America’s surveillance equipment is on high alert that its country’s nuclear weapons are in “special combat readiness.” Hundreds of imaging satellites and other private and federal spacecraft began searching for signs of increased activity among Russia’s bombers, missiles, submarines and storage bunkers with thousands of nuclear …

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Ronald Reagan’s New Economic Order and What It Means for America

Gerstle carefully recreates the new order Reagan wants to put in place. He says it has its origins in classical liberalism’s belief in the free market as the guarantor of both individual freedom and the common good. In the mid-20th century, a handful of European intellectuals and their American aides gave this belief a new …

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Using Film to Tell the Personal History of America and Race

Jeffery Robinson chronicles the unpolished history of the United States for over a decade in an ever-evolving conference presentation. His talks, now presented as part of his own organization, The Who We Are Project, explore how racism against Black people since its inception is linked to the country’s legacy. New documentary, “Who We Are: A …

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In ‘How We Roll’, Pete Holmes Looks Bowling In Mainstream America

Fifteen years ago, Pete Holmes was entering the comedy world, hanging out at the Rififi club in Manhattan’s East Village when comedian Nick Kroll mentioned that he was auditioning for a CBS sitcom. While Garry Shandling and Larry David had already moved on to cable, many comedians later craved the success of the network sitcoms …

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Leo Marx, 102, Died; Studied Nature and Culture Conflict in America

“He found answers in the cultural region, where literature, general ideas, and specific products of the collective imagination – what we might call ‘cultural symbols’ – meet. The most obvious of these symbols was the railway; “The eerie cry of the train whistle,” he wrote, was, according to Henry David Thoreau, a disturbing intervention in …

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What’s New in Paperback: ‘A Little Devil in America’ and ‘My Friend Anna’

ANTIQUES, By Cynthia Ozick. (Vintage, 272 p., $16.) Times critic Dwight Garner noted that while this collection of five stories may be a minor addition to Ozick’s voluminous work, it is “richly patterned and strongly coloured.” The title story, a novel set in 1949, follows a retired lawyer as he joins six other semi-elite old …

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How Air Pollution in America Reflects Racist Politics from the 1930s

Urban neighborhoods redrawn by federal authorities in the 1930s tended to have higher levels of harmful air pollution eighty years later. new work He found it by adding a body of evidence that reveals how racist policies in the past have contributed to inequalities in the United States today. In the wake of the Great …

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The Natural (and Political and Cultural) History of the America Bird

The fate of our (unofficial) national bird has fluctuated. Native to North America, bald eagles formed wild, handsome symbols for a new country, but as true birds they were often despised as thieves. In fact, they may be skilled kleptoparasites that steal fish from others, but scientists now see this as a sign of intelligence …

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