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According to a new study, those who have a tendency to sabotage their relationships may find solace in the fictional worlds of TV and movies.
The health of American democracy could be at stake.
With sharp political commentary just as likely to be found on Tumblr as in the pages of the Times, why aren’t the best internet memes being published in the nation’s top periodicals?
According to a new study, a small portion of a site can yield thousands of objects, adding up to millions of dollars.
‘The Life of Washington’ was painted in the 1930s by an artist who sought to upend a rosy narrative of US history. Now some are saying its images ‘traumatize’ viewers – and ought to be taken down.
Scholars continue to debate what, exactly, happened to Emmett Till the morning of his murder. But that hasn’t stopped a poor Mississippi community from trying to profit off one version of the story.
Sports are segregated by sex. But what happens when athletes don’t fit neatly into sport’s definition of gender?
The holiday honors a 19th-century battle between the French and the Mexican armies that, strangely enough, may have influenced the outcome of the US Civil War.
Many immigrants come to the United States chasing the ‘American dream.’ So do immigrant racehorses, who literally carry the hopes of their trainers and riders on their backs.
How did we become so submissive to a condition of constant surveillance that – except in spy movies or paranoid delusions – would have been considered preposterous a few decades ago?
There have been ‘Jeopardy!’ greats who can easily answer all the questions, who have mastered the buzzer and who bet big on the Daily Doubles. But Holzhauer possesses an unprecedented level of daring.
An ethnomusicologist traces the origins of the practice, from early 20th century ‘air conductors’ to Joe Cocker’s air riffing at Woodstock to the rise of international competitions.
A folklorist is working to preserve the history of a unique, urban community of Lumbee Indians.
Looking nostalgically to the past, a young architect sought to revive the building as a bulwark to the uncertainty of the Industrial Revolution.
Something about Netflix’s business model just doesn’t add up – unless you look at the streaming service as a massive data collection company.
What will the decisive outcome mean for Ukraine’s relationship with Russian and the West?
After the building that symbolized ‘all that is Russian’ went up in flames, the czar scrambled to restore it to its former glory.
Could mothers be responsible for the gender gap? Or are other factors at play?
The vast majority of stories told in movies, in books and on television conclude with happy endings – and this has real-world political consequences.
A group of researchers figured out which NBA teams featured the most egotistical players, and then tracked their performances over the course of a season.
Umpires don’t need to be replaced by robots, but some troubling findings indicate that they could use a little help.
For the rest of us, it’s another sign of the country’s eroding media and political landscape.
Ellen N. La Motte’s ‘The Backwash of War’ was praised for its clear-eyed portrayal of war, but was swiftly banned. Yet the similarities between her spare prose and Hemingway’s are unmistakable.
Why are three-pointer shots from the corner more efficient than the ones above the break? The answer: More than 90 percent of corner three-point shots are assisted.