The Batalanda Commission Report is a catalogue of corrosive evil induced, encouraged by a monstrously powerful Cabinet Mister ...

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We didn’t celebrate Lent when I was growing up. Maybe our leaders felt that, as Pentecostals, we already abstained from so ...

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Born in 1947, the child of refugees, Manne was “fascinated by small, apparently insignificant events that seemed to reveal ...

An exhibition at the New York Public Library celebrates the magazine’s literary stars and unsung office heroes.

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The New Yorker magazine, a staple of American literary and cultural life defined by its distinctive covers, long-form ...

I received a death threat. It was all the more interesting because the messenger made no attempt to hide his face, and delivered it in the most incongruous of places – a grocery store. And so it was ...