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Culture
While you’ll often hear people say that violence is never the answer, in some communities violence is viewed as a perfectly reasonable response to personal slights.
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Sports
A recent study found that an unexpected run in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament can boost enrollment.
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Relationships
Teen boys who date adult women tend to experience their relationships differently than girls who date older men.
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Gender
Often described as a sign of progressivism and gender equality, they’re neither.
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Sports
A study shows that a select group of NBA players really do go on hot streaks by making more shots in a row than statistics suggest they should.
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Sports
The deadline for formal bids to buy Chelsea FC is March 18. Expect some very rich US businessmen to be in the running.
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Sports
A sports economist explains how the deal leaves players with a fundamentally different – and in many ways, worse – arrangement than their counterparts in the other major US sports leagues.
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Theater
It may have had something to do with protecting female purity. No official statute clearly required men to do all the acting back then.
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Language
To Russian nationalists, if the Ukrainian language is classified as a derivative of the Russian language, the invasion looks less like an act of aggression and more like reintegration.
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Television
Inspired by the sensitive, handsome men they see on TV in their favorite K-dramas, they travel abroad in pursuit of a ‘soft’ masculinity they say they can’t find at home.
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Film
The Asian American actress rose to fame in an era when white actors in yellowface were more likely to play Asian characters than Asian ones.
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Literature
On Dec. 2, 1941, a publication date was set for Mori’s first book. Five days later, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, upending the writer’s life and throwing the book’s publication into doubt.
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Food
The recent US ban on avocado imports from Mexico underscores the risks of being so heavily reliant on a product that comes from one region in one country that’s rife with violence and corruption.
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Media
By sidestepping partisan pigeonholing and appealing to the anti-establishment impulses of young men, Rogan has brought together an audience that advertisers have long coveted.
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Sports
Soccer’s governing body has long sheltered behind a view that the game is apolitical. Sanctioning Russia over invasion exposes why that doesn’t hold.
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Literature
Black writers like Charles Chesnutt had to contend with a dilemma writers today know all too well: give the audience and editors what they want, or wallow in obscurity.
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Literature
Two poems that were originally excised from ‘Ariel,’ Plath’s seminal poetry collection, vividly channel the painful experience of losing an unborn child.
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Sports
A new database could pave the way for a more fair and consistent way to score slam dunks, a self-described ‘dunk scientist’ says.
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Media
When an attention-based media system always allows the noise-makers to dominate the conversation, it becomes impossible to hear the full range of voices and views.
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Media
Tabloids traditionally have gone after the rich and famous. On TikTok, anyone can be a target.