Was
-
Magazine
Why Did This Guy Put a Song About Me on Spotify?
I don’t want to make this all about me, but have you heard the song “Brett Martin, You a Nice…
-
Magazine
Hollywood’s New Fantasy: A Magical, Colorblind Past
Films and TV shows keep reimagining history as a multiracial dream world. Is that really a step forward?
-
News
A Book Found in a Cairo Market Launched a 30-Year Quest: Who Was the Writer?
For Iman Mersal, the slim novel was “life altering.” She narrates her journey in the footsteps of its largely forgotten…
-
US
‘Plan Ahead’: Baltimore Traffic Reporter on Congestion After Bridge Collapse
Tony Thornton looks ahead to years of crowded tunnels and highways with the loss of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
-
US
What the Bridge Meant to Baltimore
The victims, the history, the void. Residents reflect on their collective pain, and the city’s strength.
-
World
A New Chapter for Irish Historians’ ‘Saddest Book’
A globe-spanning research project has turned the catalog of a public archive destroyed in Ireland’s civil war into a model…
-
News
Daniel C. Lynch, Founder of Major Computer Exhibition, Dies at 82
After working on the earliest version of the internet, he saw its potential and founded a conference on computer networking…
-
Magazine
Three Presidents, No Neckties
Did Presidents Biden, Obama and Clinton, appearing together at a fund-raiser in open-neck shirts, look casual or ‘a little disheveled’?
-
News
Lorraine Graves, Pioneering Harlem Ballerina, Dies at 66
Tall and commanding, she dazzled audiences as a principal dancer for the groundbreaking Dance Theater of Harlem for nearly two…
-
News
Esther Coopersmith, Washington Hostess and Diplomat, Dies at 94
A place at her dinner tables, which sat 75, provided access to networks of money, influence and power across cultural…