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weinstein sequel. the disgraced movie mogul returns to los angeles, facing a new sex crimes trial. and later, carly simons sorrow. the singer pays tribute to her two sisters, both women dying from cancer one day apart. >> announcer: this is the "cbs weekend news" from new york with jericka duncan. good evening and thanks for joining us on this sunday. we begin tonight with the fast-approaching midterm elections. both parties are pressing hard to show why they deserve your vote. dem...

In Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’—as in so many other recent films—the greatest threat comes from within

The degeneration of our political discourse is leading to a place where our democracy may be undermined

Following the assault on Congress on January 6th, 2021, is the prospect of war really that far-fetched?

Hudson Valley Ideas Festival The Hudson Valley Ideas Festival is an annual gathering designed to inspire intellectual exploration and public dialogue in the greater Hudson Valley community. Set at the historic Rosendale Theater, the 2024 Festival brings together prominent figures in entrepreneurship, literature, public policy, and journalism to tackle society's most pressing issues. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with ideas that shape our future, network with fellow attendees,...

The world-famous playwright invented scores of new words and phrases. Here are 10 that have become part of the popular lexicon.

Given the subject matter, Alex Garlands Civil War could easily have slipped into an overly political commentary on the current divisions in the United States

The real risks America faces are more insidious | Culture

Not so long ago, the notion of civil war erupting in America might have seemed a fairly niche political nightmare. In 2017, Omar El Akkad’s book American War imagined a civil conflict over fossil fuels, but it was a speculative fiction, set in 2074. Yet by 2022, another novelist, Stephen Marche, was publishing The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future – and this was speculative non-fiction, about today.

Halt all ye writers preparing your Booker speeches – AI won’t just write your speech for you, it will write your book! Naively you thought AI was here to do your housework, watching fondly as...