New Yorkers who want more marble in their workouts can now exercise at the Met, not with trainers but “athletic docents.” Make no mistake: this is a workout. Your body will perspire, your heart rate will rise and you’ll shed any light layers. (That said, my one request would
“From 17th century Postmedieval English abodes to 19th century Tudors all the way through the “McMansions” of the 1990s,” a handy guide to the vernacular of American homes. / Pop Chart Lab From an outgoing interview with Obama’s White House photographer, Pete Souza: / GQ A former restaurant owner from Waco,
This appearance of Masha Gessen on Full Frontal makes a good case for Gessen getting her own show.
Not everyone accepted Obama’s clemency. One man is waiting for it to be extended to others. A former restaurant owner from Waco, in for crack cocaine crimes, elected to stay in jail as a “silent protest” against the imprisonment of nonviolent offenders. “I would ask President Obama to sign
Pussy Riot, whose leaders Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were jailed for two years for criticizing Putin, provide an apocalytic view of America ruled by the Russian president's BFF Donald Trump.
“We are supporting a business model which was appropriate to a historic phase in business history which is now over and which is largely irrelevant to the needs of modern business and now mainly serves the interests of a bloated finance sector.” Governance requirements have tipped the balance from businesses
A brief overview of Trump’s personal oddities After eight years of relatively normalcy from the Executive Branch under President Obama—whose oddest trait might be his anal nighttime nut habit, or the vast and unscrupulous expansion of the surveillance state and drone warfare, take your pick—we are now
“At the American Federation of Teachers, there were always Republicans we’d endorse. And it got to the point where … the Republicans would say, ‘Please don’t endorse me because it will hurt me with the DeVoses.’ They’d send back money because the DeVoses would punish them.” How Trump’
John Kerry’s faith in diplomacy led to huge gains for environment and internationalism, but it also led to big failures in Middle East Despite a good deal of skepticism as incoming Secretary of State, John Kerry threw himself into the job to mixed results. His ambitions for peace in
“I sometimes think we are a very ungrateful nation. You are damaging an industry that provided food your country loves.” Brexit has cut into what a decade ago seemed to be the pinnacle of British cuisine: curry houses. / The Guardian The Australian Open began this week, drawing the tennis world
