Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis / Getty As the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the United States in March, work and school moved online, restaurants closed, and unemployment soared. The effects on ment

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Photo: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from The Hearst Corporation and The Norman and Rosita Winston Foundation, Inc. 82.20. © Estate of Philip Guston Last week, four maj

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Influencer Amy Hart, who appeared on Love Island, encouraged her Twitter followers to join a union.Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock A my Hart earned her 1.2 million Instagram and 99,000 Twitter follow

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In the mid-1950s, a decade after World War II ended, the town of Dachau took down the directional signs that pointed to its concentration camp. Visitors had swarmed the area — not just survivors of th

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I n a beautiful meadow filled with wildflowers and birdsong, a man of late middle age wearing a faded camouflage sun hat knelt beside a clump of clover and prepared to break the law. Martin White remo

On April 20, 1968, Enoch Powell, a leading member of the Conservative Party in the British parliament, made a speech that would imprint itself into British memory—and divide the nation with its racist, incendiary rhetoric. Speaking before a group of conservative activists, Powell said that if…

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The irony of our vibrant and necessary police reform movement is that it’s happening simultaneously to everyone becoming a cop. I mean everyone — liberal, conservative, radical and reactionary. Blogger, activist, pundit, and writer, obviously, but also teacher, tailor, and candlestick maker. Cops,…

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The country’s largest Ikea opened in Burbank, California, last month . At 456,600 square feet, twice the size of, and one mile away from, the old Burbank Ikea, this new store offers a lot more of everything people have come to expect from the brand: More inspirational showrooms, more lingonberries,…

The referendum was the flame ; Article 50 is the fuse. Today, after months of recrimination and fear, the deed was finally done. Britain’s unelected Prime Minister triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon T