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Lagers may be ubiquitous but India Pale Ales are beers with a backstory Published in The Economist · 9 min read · Dec 29, 2016 -- Beer is for drinking. But beer is also an occasion for conversation —
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(Credit: Lucasfilm/Disney) Whatever way you look at it ‘Rogue One’, the first of Disney’s ‘Star Wars’ standalone movies directed by Gareth Edwards, has been a roaring success. The fans love it, the cr
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Does trauma lead to greater creativity? Certainly, trauma by itself — which can mean anything from an accident to an assault to losing a loved one — isn’t necessarily going to result in creative glory
There is an old adage about shortcuts: If they worked, they would simply be called “the way.” For military strategy, any shortcuts come with significant penalties. This is applicable across multiple d
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Has any concept more completely defined and disfigured public life over the last generation than so-called elitism? Ever since Richard Nixon’s speechwriters pitted a silent majority (later sometimes “
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Some time before The Last Of Us was released in 2013 I received a small, squeezable brick in the post from Sony Computer Entertainment. It was about the size of a deck of cards and textured like a stress toy, and it had "The Last Of Us" printed on one side, with a smiley face on the other. A happy…
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WHEN Donald Trump announced that he was running for the White House, there was only one venue for his speech: Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. The skyscraper has been central to Mr Trump’s business life.
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It had come to this last August in the 110-in-the-shade heat of the Arizona desert: The director had been sent packing. The cinematographer had already quit three times, and his days still seemed numb
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Newt Gingrich’s politics of destruction paved the way for Donald Trump. John Sommers II/Getty Images This story is part of a group of stories called Outside contributors' opinions and analysis of the
L ast March, my 71-year-old grandmother, Betty, waited in line for three hours to caucus for Bernie Sanders. The wait to be able to cast her first-ever vote in a primary election was punishing, but no
By Courtney Enlow | Celebrity | August 11, 2016 | By Courtney Enlow | Celebrity | August 11, 2016 | Before Suicide Squad was even announced, all focus has been on Jared Leto and his “method” behavior
Of all the stories surfacing about the new DC Comics film Suicide Squad— from the dismal reviews to the box-office reports —the most disconcerting are the ones that detail how Jared Leto got into his
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