WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Has Been Arrested
The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has been arrested by U.K. police at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he had been holed up since 2012. Assange, 47, received diplomatic asylum from Ecuador after breaching bail in the U.K. during an investigation into sexual assault allegations in Sweden. Sweden has since rescinded its arrest warrant for Assange, though th...
4m Apr 11, 2019
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Jamie Lannister Has Plenty to Say About Most Popular Game of Thrones Theories
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has read your fan theories about how Game of Thrones ends, but says no one has come close to the true ending yet. Coster-Waldau who plays Jaime Lannister on the HBO series stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday night as part of the ongoing media blitz before the show’s eighth and final season kicks off on HBO on Sunday night. Host Jimmy Kimmel pl...
2m Apr 11, 2019
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A ‘Clean’ Chinese Food Restaurant in New York Is the Latest Flashpoint in a Debate Over Cultural Appropriation
For the third time in the last six months, an Asian restaurant created by white owners with the word “Lucky” in its name has drawn criticism for cultural appropriation or insensitivity. Gordon Ramsay’s Lucky Cat came under fire for describing itself as “authentic Asian” food. Andrew Zimmern apologized after describing other Midwest Chinese restaurants as “horses - - t...
7m Apr 11, 2019
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Bones Found in Philippine Cave Reveal Long-Lost Cousin of Modern Humans
(NEW YORK) — Fossil bones and teeth found in the Philippines have revealed a long-lost cousin of modern people, which evidently lived around the time our own species was spreading from Africa to occupy the rest of the world. It's yet another reminder that, although Homo sapiens is now the only surviving member of our branch of the evolutionary tree, we've had company fo...
5m Apr 11, 2019
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Sen. Bernie Sanders Unveils New ‘Medicare for All’ Plan With Support From Some 2020 Rivals
(WASHINGTON) — Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont unveiled a new version of his "Medicare for All" plan on Wednesday, shaking up the 2020 presidential race by reopening the debate over his call to eliminate private health insurance. "It is not a radical idea to say that in the United States, every American who goes to a doctor should be able to afford the prescription drug ...
7m Apr 11, 2019
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Meet Katie Bouman, One Woman Who Helped Make the World’s First Image of a Black Hole
The space was tiny and hot. On a fateful day last summer, Katie Bouman and three fellow researchers filed into a small room at Harvard University, safe from prying eyes, in order to see an image that had been years in the making. Researchers from all over the world had combined forces to gather masses of astronomical data — enough to fill a half ton of hard drives — tha...
6m Apr 11, 2019
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Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir Has Stepped Down After Being Coerced by the Army, Officials Say
(CAIRO) — Sudan's armed forces were to deliver an "important statement" and asked the nation to "wait for it" on Thursday, state TV reported, as two senior officials said the military had forced longtime President Omar al-Bashir to step down. The circumstances of al-Bashir's apparent ouster and his current whereabouts remained unclear, however.
5m Apr 11, 2019
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Game of Thrones' Battle of Winterfell Is Set to Be Its Most Epic Ever
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones season 8. From the Battle of the Blackwater to the Battle of Castle Black to the Battle of the Bastards, Game of Thrones has a long history of producing legendary battle sequences. But the show's creators say that the final showdown between the living and the dead in Game of Thrones season 8 is going to be bigger ...
6m Apr 10, 2019
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Americans Are Obsessed With Tidying Up. But There’s a Downside to Being Organized
In her bestselling book and Netflix series, Marie Kondo makes the case that decluttering can "dramatically transform" your life. "Detoxing" your spaces of unused and unwanted stuff can make you happier, more confident and maybe even slimmer, Kondo writes in The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. Judging by the popularity of her message and method, Kondo's philosophy is ...
5m Apr 10, 2019
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Vitamins and Supplements Can’t Replace a Balanced Diet, Study Says
Roughly 90% of American adults do not eat enough fruits and vegetables, but many are trying to make up for it by popping pills. According to the Council for Responsible Nutrition, 75% of U.S. adults take a dietary supplement of some kind. Multivitamins, many people believe, are a one-step way to get the nutrients they need. But new research published in the Annals of In...
5m Apr 10, 2019
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Virginia Hall Was America’s Most Successful Female WWII Spy. But She Was Almost Kept From Serving
When Gina Haspel became the first female director of the CIA in 2018, she talked of how she had stood “on the shoulders of heroines who never sought public acclaim.” She was “deeply indebted,” she said, to women who had served the agency and its wartime predecessor the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) for making her appointment possible by challenging stereotypes and bre...
7m Apr 10, 2019
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Trump Vowed to Slow Border Crossings. Now They’ve Hit a 12-Year High
When border crossings went down after Donald Trump's inauguration, the White House was quick to take credit. Speaking at a press briefing in April of 2018, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen noted that the Administration had seen a "precipitous drop" in unlawful border crossings. "This 'Trump effect,' as many of you have referred to it and we have as well, on ...
9m Apr 10, 2019
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Lori Loughlin Indicted on New Charge in College Admissions Scandal
(BOSTON) — Federal prosecutors added money laundering to the list of accusations against actress Lori Loughlin, her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, and 14 other parents Tuesday in the college admissions bribery case, signaling an escalation against parents who are fighting the allegations instead of pleading guilty.
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The Dalai Lama Has Been Hospitalized With a Chest Infection
NEW DELHI (AP) — The Dalai Lama has been hospitalized in the Indian capital with a chest infection and is feeling better, his spokesman said Wednesday. The 83-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader is under medication and likely to spend a day or two in the hospital, spokesman Tenzin Taklha said. The Dalai Lama flew from Dharmsala for consultations with doctors in the cap...
1m Apr 10, 2019
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Libya Is on the Brink of Civil War and a U.S. Citizen Is Responsible. Here’s What to Know
Dozens of people have been reported killed and scores more injured in clashes on the edge of Libya’s coastal capital Tripoli after warlord Khalifa Haftar ordered his troops to take the city from the U.N.-backed government April 4. The offensive by the military chief Haftar, who has U.S. citizenship, has pushed Libya to the brink of civil war. The Tripoli based-governmen...
10m Apr 10, 2019
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Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu Poised for Historic Fifth Term as Prime Minister
(JERUSALEM) — Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to be headed toward a historic fifth term as Israel's prime minister on Wednesday, with close-to-complete unofficial election results giving his right-wing Likud and other nationalist and religious parties a solid majority in parliament. The outcome affirmed Israel's continued tilt to the right and further dimmed hopes of a nego...
6m Apr 10, 2019
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We Randomly Generated 10 Million March Madness Brackets — And We Still Got Beat
I should probably be happier that my alma mater, the University of Virginia, won the men's basketball NCAA tournament. But I'm disappointed that none of the 10 million March Madness brackets I generated would have won ESPN's Tournament Challenge, where the winning bracket racked up 185 of 192 possible points. (ESPN multiplies those scores by 10, but otherwise it uses the s...
6m Apr 10, 2019
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Virginia Tops Texas Tech to Win NCAA Men's Basketball Championship in Overtime
In the hours leading into tipoff, Monday night's NCAA men's basketball national championship game, between Virginia and Texas Tech, received about as much love a blister on a big toe. Or a wart. Pundits and the general basketball populace wrote it off as an eyesore. Two of the best defensive teams in the country, sans transcendent stars, and worst off all, the game feature...
6m Apr 09, 2019
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Burger King Drops Chopsticks Ad After Accusations of Cultural Insensitivity
Burger King is the latest brand to spark criticism on social media with an ad depicting diners struggling to eat western food with chopsticks. The fast-food chain showed a video clip of diners trying to eat its new “Vietnamese Sweet Chilli Tendercrisp Burger” with large red chopsticks. Social media users say the ad, which was posted on Instagram, is culturally insensiti...
2m Apr 09, 2019
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Trump Is Again Considering Dramatic Action on Immigration. Here’s Why
Several months ago, President Donald Trump shut down the federal government in a bid to get Congress to approve a border wall, then declared an emergency when he didn't get funding. Now, there are signs that he is again considering taking dramatic steps to force the immigration issue.
6m Apr 09, 2019
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Taylor Swift Sent a Handwritten Note and a $113,000 Donation to a Tennessee LGBTQ Advocacy Group
(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — Music superstar Taylor Swift says the efforts of a Tennessee LGBTQ advocacy group to fight a handful of contentious bills moving inside the state's Republican-controlled General Assembly inspired her to make a sizeable donation. According to the Tennessee Equality Project, Swift donated $113,000 to the organization on Monday.
1m Apr 09, 2019
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These 6 Tips and Tricks Will Revolutionize Your Instagram Story Game
With more than 1 billion monthly active users, Instagram is the world’s go-to source for cute pictures of puppies, inexplicably viral eggs, and great fashion finds (though be careful about spending too much money there.) Lately, Instagram Stories are where the real action is, with over 500 million users using Stories, per the company. While Instagram Stories may have b...
6m Apr 09, 2019
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The U.S. May Be on Track for the Most Measles Cases Since the Disease Was Declared Eliminated
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed nearly 100 more measles diagnoses since last week, pushing the 2019 case count closer to record levels less than halfway through the year. The CDC has confirmed 465 measles cases in 19 states so far this year, according to the agency's latest numbers. That's up from 387 cases in 15 states the week before...
3m Apr 09, 2019
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Man Inspired by ISIS Planned Truck Attack at Maryland’s National Harbor, Prosecutors Say
(WASHINGTON) — A Maryland man who prosecutors say was inspired by the Islamic State group plotted to ram a stolen U-Haul truck into as many pedestrians as possible at a popular convention and tourist destination just outside the nation's capital, federal prosecutors said Monday. The allegation was made in a court filing Monday as prosecutors in Maryland urged a judge to...
4m Apr 09, 2019
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Egypt’s Alaa al Aswany Learns the Cost of Writing Against the Regime
Before he became a bestselling novelist, before he embarrassed Egypt’s former prime minister on live television, before he heard military prosecutors were suing him, Dr. Alaa al Aswany was in the business of fixing teeth. When he started out, Aswany’s dental practice had afforded him the ability to write without being financially beholden to the state. As his star rose he ...
9m Apr 09, 2019
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4 Americans Killed in Roadside Bombing Near Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield
(KABUL, Afghanistan) — Three American service members and a U.S. contractor were killed when their convoy hit a roadside bomb on Monday near the main U.S. base in Afghanistan, the U.S. forces said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. The U.S. and NATO Resolute Support mission said the four Americans were killed near the Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, wh...
2m Apr 09, 2019
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The Palestinian Issue Used to Be a Major Factor in Israeli Elections. Here’s Why It Hasn’t Been This Time
Despite Palestinian rocket attacks and rising tensions between Israel and Hamas, Tuesday’s Israeli election, unlike many before it, is not about the Palestinian issue. In fact, the issue barely featured in a campaign season that focused heavily on personalities, rather than policies.
7m Apr 09, 2019
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Why NATO Is Essential For World Peace, According to Its Former Commander
Very few Americans could find tiny Montenegro on a map. Fewer still could offer a cogent description of the differences between Slovenia and Slovakia. Most can't name the three Baltic countries. Yet thanks to Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's charter, which was signed 70 years ago in Washington, every American is bound by law to defend with blood and...
16m Apr 08, 2019
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Biographer Robert Caro Pauses as He Prepares His Final Lyndon B. Johnson Volume
The desk in Robert Caro's office has a rounded notch, a clean little half circle that lets him snug his wooden chair into his custom-made workstation. Instead of legs, the top rests on a pair of sawhorses. Shims raise the surface to where his elbows naturally rest when Caro's pen rolls across the white legal pads on which he writes the first drafts of his epic biographies....
8m Apr 08, 2019
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Ryan O’Connell Came Out of the Disability Closet. Now, He’s Changing the Conversation
Ryan O’Connell likens his new show, Special, to an Ariana Grande song—which is to say, it’s pop. It’s not Stravinsky or Coltrane; it’s not, as he puts it, “some lo-fi mumblecore sh-t.” The semiautobiographical series he wrote and stars in, about an introverted millennial struggling to move out of his mom’s house and become a writer, is conventional. Most of its episodes ha...
9m Apr 08, 2019
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Suspected Rhino Poacher Killed by an Elephant, Then Eaten by Lions in South Africa
A suspected poacher met a violent death in South Africa last week, killed by an elephant before his body was eaten by a pride of lions in Kruger National Park. According to park officials, the deceased man's alleged accomplices called his family to tell them that he had been killed by an elephant while they were in the park to hunt rhinos on the night of April 2. The fa...
2m Apr 08, 2019
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Kirstjen Nielsen Resigns as Department of Homeland Security Secretary
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned on Sunday amid the administration's growing frustration and bitterness over the number of Central American families crossing the southern border. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday in a tweet that U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan would be taking over as acting head of the depart...
8m Apr 08, 2019
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India Gets Ready for High-Stakes Elections in the World’s Biggest Democracy
India's 2019 general-election campaign kicks off on April 11 with the world's largest exercise in democracy: more than 900 million eligible voters, 1 million polling stations and seven phases spread across five weeks.
3m Apr 08, 2019
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Why History Looks Different Through a Mother’s Eyes
It's said that history is written by the victors, but it would also be fair to say it typically isn't written by people who are busy birthing, nursing or tending to babies, victorious though they may be. Such is the challenge faced by Sarah Knott, a historian who sets out to address that imbalance in Mother Is a Verb, her new book that blends memoir and history to tell a s...
3m Apr 08, 2019
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Robert Pattinson’s Performance Brings Tenderness to the Chilling, Dystopian ‘High Life’
French filmmaker Claire Denis is one of the unsung geniuses of worldwide cinema. Not everyone knows her name, but the movies she's made over the past three decades--like the sensuous, evocative 1999 Billy Budd adaptation Beau Travail, or 35 Shots of Rum, from 2008, a drama about makeshift families that reflects the ever changing face of France itself--are so vital and so b...
3m Apr 08, 2019
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Kidnapped American Woman and Her Driver Rescued by Ugandan Police: Officials
(KAMPALA, Uganda) — Ugandan police said on Sunday they had rescued an American woman and her driver who had been kidnapped by gunmen in a national park. The two "are in good health" and "in the safe hands" of security officials, police said in a Twitter update. https://twitter.com/PoliceUg/status/1114936171052900352 Authorities gave no more details.
1m Apr 08, 2019
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6 Ways to Save Money on Prescription Drugs
The cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. has long caused frustration and, worse, presented financial barriers for some consumers. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the average American pays $1,200 per year for medications, more than in any other country in the world.
9m Apr 07, 2019
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Here's a List of Upcoming SNL Hosts and Musical Guests
This weekend on Saturday Night Live, Game of Thrones star Kit Harington will take the reins as host. Jon Snow himself will make his SNL debut alongside musical guest Sara Bareilles, known for hits like "Love Song" and "Brave" and the Broadway show Waitress. Harington's appearance heralds the return of Thrones for its hotly-anticipated final season on HBO, premiering on Apr...
7m Apr 07, 2019
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Director Mike Leigh Revisits a Little-Known 1819 Massacre in ‘Peterloo’
You might need to be something of an English-history nut to truly love Peterloo, Mike Leigh's somber and ambitious film about the Peterloo Massacre of 1819, in which 18 people were killed and many more were injured when cavalry soldiers charged a group of roughly 60,000 citizens who had gathered peacefully in Manchester's St. Peter's Field to campaign for parliamentary ref...
2m Apr 07, 2019
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They Were Orphaned by the Rwandan Genocide. 25 Years Later, They’re Interviewing the Perpetrators
When Gadi Habumugisha was 2 years old, he was forced to flee his home in Rwanda with his older sister. It was April 1994, and violence was escalating after the death of the president, as ethnic tensions erupted. Crossing the border to seek safety in refugee camps in the neighboring Congo, the pair were eventually orphaned by the killings. April 7 marks 25 years since t...
7m Apr 07, 2019
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Review: In Season 2, Killing Eve Is Still the Most Exhilarating Show on TV
Now is a great time to rewatch Killing Eve’s first season finale, because season two picks up just 30 seconds after that episode’s unnervingly intimate cliff-hanger ending.
2m Apr 07, 2019
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Column: Why the IRS Should Pay People Even More in Their Tax Refunds
For most American households, April showers bring May flowers and, even better, tax refunds. In 2018 roughly 73% of individual income tax filers received money back, averaging a refund of $2,899. In many ways, that's a good thing. But it also means that millions of households are together missing out on billions of dollars.
4m Apr 07, 2019
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Trump Administration Wants 2 Years to Identify Children Separated From Parents at Border
(SAN DIEGO) — The Trump administration wants up to two years to find potentially thousands of children who were separated from their families at the border before a judge halted the practice last year, a task that it says is more laborious than previous efforts because the children are no longer in government custody.
3m Apr 07, 2019
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The U.S. Is Warning Russia to Stop Interfering in Venezuela. Here's Why
What Happened This Week: Following Russia’s recent decision to send 100 or so “advisors” (read: soldiers) alongside military equipment to prop up the Maduro regime in Venezuela, White House officials have repeatedly warned Moscow to stop interfering in Venezuela’s ongoing political crisis. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo kept up the drumbeat this week, declaring in a spe...
6m Apr 07, 2019
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Why Trump's Cuts to Central American Aid Won't Slow Migration
For all the political hostility, President Donald Trump stumbled into a hard truth of international migration this week: No amount of foreign aid is going to stop the exodus of undocumented migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to the United States as long as those Central American countries remain impoverished, dangerous and unstable.
7m Apr 06, 2019
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An American Tourist Has Been Kidnapped and Held for Ransom in Uganda. Here’s What to Know
An American woman and a local guide were kidnapped from a popular tourist destination in Uganda on Tuesday evening by unknown gunmen who have demanded a $500,000 ransom, according to police. The woman was identified by Reuters as Kimberley Sue Endecott, 35. Los Angeles TV stations quoted friends and neighbors, who identified her as Kimberly Sue Endicott, from Costa Mesa...
6m Apr 06, 2019
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5 Songs You Need to Listen to This Weekend
Anitta shows she's got the range on Kisses, a trilingual album from the Brazilian superstar. Meanwhile, a viral hit — Lil Nas X's social-media-assisted country-trap crossover "Old Town Road" — gets a Billy Ray Cyrus remix that should only boost its popularity and chart potential. K-pop girl group BLACKPINK set out a powerful mission statement of global domination with the ...
5m Apr 06, 2019
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This College Basketball Team Banned Smartphones. Now It’s in the Final Four
Texas Tech men's basketball team, the parents of America salute you. Our country's coaches also offer a hearty thanks, as does any teacher who's had to battle an electronic device for attention. Why are millions of us so grateful to the Red Raiders? Well, because of your actions, we can now -- with a straight face -- tell our children, our players, our students that if the...
4m Apr 06, 2019
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72 People Are Sick With E. Coli. The CDC Isn’t Sure Why
An E. coli outbreak has sickened at least 72 people in five states — and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) isn't sure of the source. All 72 people were infected with the same strain of E. coli, but the CDC has not been able to determine a common food item, grocery store or restaurant chain that may be to blame, the agency announced Friday. Illnesses h...
2m Apr 06, 2019
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Review: Mad Men Finally Finds a Spiritual Sequel in FX's 'Fosse/Verdon'
For most of the past decade, TV networks have been trying to replicate Mad Men. (Remember NBC's The Playboy Club? ABC's Pan Am?) But these imitators never seemed to understand that beyond the 1960s styling, Mad Men resonated because of its deep insight into creative work and the havoc it can wreak on the personal lives of people who devote themselves to it.
4m Apr 06, 2019
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