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Taking You There: The Glory of Albert Bierstadt: ‘Among the Sierra Nevada, California’ Have you ever had a painting show up at different times in your life when you needed it most? At Penn State in 1967, in the auditorium for Professor Jim Lord’s art history survey class, a large screen spanned the width of the stage. He would flash up slides from different artistic eras—some older, then more modern pieces. Some of the abstract art with splotched canvases were forgettable. One day he pu...

Various are the survival strategies — for when you go months without the local aqueduct bringing you water, AND for a medium that’s squeezed by tech monopolies. It helps when you see your little publication as a cause rather than a cash cow. Archive photo by Eric Jackson, from the time when his house and his neighbors’ houses went eight months without water. Google and Facebook, attacked from several directions, move to silence their critics by Eric Jackson Want to be NOT listed by Google...

When Richard Nixon picked up the Sunday New York Times on June 13, 1971, he must have lingered on the smiling image of himself escorting Tricia – his “ethereal blond daughter,” as the paper described her – to her wedding in the White House’s Rose Garden. He was thrilled with the coverage. That “archive” soon became known as the Pentagon Papers – 7,000 pages of top-secret documents that exposed more than two decades of war-related deceit by four presidential administrations. A m...

"The apple doesnt fall far from the tree." So say our political families as they try to pass the torch on to generations of clunkers who dine out on the family name, even as the franchise rots.

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Republicans shouldnt be Dem-lite By Amity Shlaes & Matthew Denhart: Bloomberg Opinion Published March 5, 2021 Eric Schulzke: Daydreaming may be the next childhood psychiatric target Kathryn Moody: Investors, Are You Ready for the Next Global Crisis? Meghan Streit: Pitching In When Caregivers Need Help The Kosher Gourmet by Diane Rossen Worthington: Caprese is a light, fresh salad; the perfect quick and easy accompaniment to any summer meal Jonathan Tobin: Care about the Jewish states fut...

Is democracy for everyone? Are concerns about elections and human rights a luxury that only rich Western nations can afford? Some leaders — notably those of the People’s Republic of China — have long railed against the notion of “universal values,” which they see as an attack their right to rule. (Which, of course, it is.) One would suppose that any U.S. president, especially one as focused on rolling back the tide of autocracy as Joe Biden is, would retort that core liberal democra...

(AP Photo) “Kennedy proved his mettle in response to a Soviet breach of the Monroe Doctrine, defusing a crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster.” “Since a prince, then, is required to know how to assume a beastlike nature, he must adopt that of the fox and that of the lion; for a lion is defenseless against snares, and a fox is defenseless against wolves. Hence a prince ought to be a fox in recognizing snares and a lion in driving off wolves.” – Niccolo Machiave...