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Lin-Manuel Miranda explains why he didn't submit the catchy tune.

Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers began their collaboration as the Firm with a self-titled debut, released on Feb. 11, 1985.

Without any legally enforceable lockdown measures, the watchful gaze of the public eye has kept the nation’s citizens in check.

When a hacker gets hacked, how does he exact revenge? He hacks back, of course. A story at Wired recounts one such example of this truth that has a remarkable twist: It involves...

There are many different paths to parenthood, and in an exquisite piece for the New Yorker , Akhil Sharma writes of his own. Sharma, an author and professor at Duke, grew up...

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

They were a young family of four from India who froze to death while trying to walk from Canada into the US last month. The BBC digs into the story of the Patel family to...

Music writer Ted Gioia takes note of a stat that he says should trouble anyone interested in new music: Old songs—by definition, those older than 18 months—now account...

These stars did commercial work before they hit their big breaks.

After an entire season, the show left Star Wars basically where it found it.