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D-Day’s 80th Anniversary Might Be the Last for Many WWII Veterans
It is 80 years since the Allied invasion of Normandy, and the average age of veterans hovers at 100. Once they are gone, how will their sacrifices be remembered?
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Middle East Crisis: Biden Suggests Netanyahu Is Prolonging War to Stay in Power
Asked if the Israeli prime minister was prolonging the war in Gaza to hold on to office, the president said that he believes “there is every reason for people to draw that conclusion,” echoing something many of his aides have been saying privately.
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India’s 2024 Election Takeaways: Modi Struggles to Stay on Top
The prime minister will keep his job, but his aura has been diminished and his leadership has fundamentally changed as the country’s multiparty democracy springs back to life.
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Philip Guston’s Teenage Drawings Reveal a Lost World of Funny Pages
A fresh crop of apprentice cartoons — now public property — from his pen at The Junior Times may add to our understanding of Guston and his art.
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Bad Boys: Ride or Die
I’m not coming out and accusing the writers of “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” of using A.I., a touchy subject in Hollywood these days. But if a computer had written this blockbuster sequel, it wouldn’t turn out much different. Serving as a more direct sequel to 2020’s “Bad Boys for Life” than people might expect, “Ride…
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Chi Film Fest’s 60th Anniversary Cinema Soirée
It was a celebration that, in some sense, had been sixty years in the making. It was also necessary. It’s been a rough year for festivals: the Berlinale witnessed deep political divides around its response to Gaza, Toronto International Film Festival is still reeling from losing Bell (its biggest sponsor), the entire programming team for…
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The Acolyte Sends Star Wars Into a Galaxy Far, Far In the Past
Like the Jedi and the Sith, the “Star Wars” universe of late has felt like a dueling dyad of creative directions for the franchise—each battling for supremacy on the now-fertile ground of Disney+. Some entries, like “Ahsoka” and the later seasons of “The Mandalorian” (and, frankly, “Star Wars, Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker”), view the…
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Short Films in Focus: The Year of Staring at Noses
This should be obvious, but I’ll say it anyway: Go watch the movie first. Scroll down, watch it, then scroll back up and read the review and Q&A. Part of the joy of doing this piece every month is the discovery process, of hitting ‘play’ and not knowing what you’re getting. “The Year of Staring…
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A New Search for Ripples in Space From the Beginning of Time
As it studies cosmic microwaves, the Simons Observatory in Chile aims to help prove or disprove cosmic inflation, a notion that the universe expanded rapidly in the moment after the Big Bang.
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Family Discovers Rare T. Rex Fossil in North Dakota
Two brothers, their father and a cousin were hiking in the North Dakota Badlands in 2022 when they found the bones of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex.