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Clarence Thomas awaits his chance to drive the conservative majority on abortion and guns CNN 1 hr ago By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter © Erin Schaff/The New York Times/Pool Associate Justice Clarence Thomas sits during a group photo at the Supreme Court Twenty-nine years ago, less than a year after he had taken the bench, Justice Clarence Thomas joined a dissent calling the landmark opinion Roe v. Wade "plainly wrong" and an "erroneous constitutional decision." Over the years Thomas would say Roe had "no basis in the Constitution" and call out the court's a...

Credit: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance The once-abundant California condor briefly went extinct in the wild, with only 22 individuals living in captivity by 1982. Today, 300 condors live freely in the wild and another 200 are in captivity. But, despite the condor's struggles, a new study of the California condor genome reported in the journal Current Biology on May 13 has found a surprising amount of genetic diversity. The study is the first to begin quantifying diversity across the entire California condor genome, which offers researchers needed baseline information to inform future resea...

FOAM Talent Aaron Blum offers his thoughts on visual storytelling and the changing definitions of documentary photography in this extended, widely informative conversation

Colby Chamberlain on the art of Dave McKenzie Bobblehead from Dave McKenzie’s While Supplies Last, 2003, performance, poly-resin figures, 7 × 2 1⁄2 × 2 1⁄2". “I KNOW YOU ARE DAVE, but who is Dave?” Sixteen years ago, in these pages, the artist Glenn Ligon recounted how a stranger once posed this question to Dave McKenzie’s face. Or rather, she posed it to a papier-mâché approximation of his face, which McKenzie wore while he handed out bobblehead figurines of himself during an opening at SculptureCenter in New York. Ligon floated a fe...

REPLICATOR (2021). Courtesy of Phillips. But the premium-inclusive price Phillips achieved for  REPLICATOR (2021) has made Mad Dog Jones the most expensive living Canadian artist. The digital creator, whose real name is Michah Dowbak, outstripped the famed contemporary photographer and artist Jeff Wall, whose current auction record stands at $3.7 million. The winning $4.1 million bid—Mad Dog Jones’s only auction result on record, according to the Artnet Price Database—was made by a buyer new to Phillips. It is the latest example of how crypto-wealth is flooding and shaking up the tra...