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Their desire to pursue marriage abroad not only reveals their longing for a better life but also reveals the pervasive gender, age and class inequalities that continue to plague modern-day China.
A scholar works to document a dialect of the Ojibwe language that was spoken by his grandmother in the Great Lakes region.
The jokes, memes and skits came thick and fast – but behind the humor were serious points.
As fashion norms change, what people wear in public becomes ground zero for hashing out new ideas of race, class and gender.
Studios say the number is unrealistic − that it amounts to actors not assuming any financial risk for content that flops. But actors simply want to adapt existing payout models to changing technology.
What does it say about the online media ecosystem when the end of a 146-day strike is buried under headlines and posts about Swift’s budding romance with NFL star Travis Kelce?
The government’s use of the Hindi word for ‘India’ revives debates over whether Hindi should be the national language – and reopens some old wounds.
Two days after Rodgers’ injury, the NFL players union called on the league to convert all playing fields to natural grass.
With the TV writers and actors strikes leaving networks with little scripted content, the fall 2023 lineup will be saturated with low-cost reality TV shows like ‘The Voice.’
Art and science may seem like opposites, but throughout history the disciplines have fed off each other − and still do today.
Jim Croce’s brief time in the national spotlight was enough to put a bevy of songs in heavy rotation on radio stations – and on stage in the hands of a lengthy A-list of fellow musicians.
A book-length thought experiment uses math to investigate some of life’s big questions.
A psychiatrist explains the many ways anxiety can hinder, color or compel creativity.
Societies celebrate heroes and commemorate tragedies. But why is there so little public acknowledgment of environmental disasters?
People might go to the movies to escape reality. Yet Barbie and Ariel choose to live in the world their audiences inhabit − and, in doing so, decide to die.
For Buffett, escapism was not merely some fiddling flight of fancy. It acknowledged the brutalities and indignities of everyday life.
The genre has long been viewed as too exclusive, too expensive and too stuffy. Thanks to video games, that’s starting to change.
Publishers and studios routinely pay large sums to acquire ‘life story rights.’ Two law scholars explain why the phrase is misleading.
Iranian artists are showing renewed determination to promote freedom as a cultural necessity in Iran, even in the face of a government crackdown.
From the pre-Roe years to today, country musicians have written about the realities of life with restrictions on reproductive rights.
A lecturer in English literature gets her students to examine children’s books through the lens of race, class and sexuality.
Researchers had college students and AI take a standardized test in creative thinking, and all of them were scored by trained evaluators who didn’t know in advance that some had been completed by AI.
‘Ex-Wife’ originally outsold ‘The Great Gatsby,’ but critics sniffed at the novel, deeming it a melodramatic period piece − even though it tackled timeless issues like gender, money and power.
Language, geography, age and other factors can all affect how fast a person talks. But sometimes, these perceived differences are only in the listener’s head.