The prolific German composer Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847) wrote some 450 works - "but many were published under her ...

With her new presidential action flick G20, Viola Davis understands the desire to politicize her role. Noting they made the movie before Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election to Donald Trump ...

Guest: Lyndal Roper is Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford. She is the author of several books including, Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet; Witch Craze, and her latest, Summer ...

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Wordle doesn't repeat words if it can help it. Perhaps one day the New York Times will need to start recycling old words, but there's an awful lot of viable five-letter words to choose from, so for ...

April 8, 2025 • Our third installment of calming songs includes Max Richter's tribute to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ambient sounds from Ryuichi Sakamoto, Brazilian jazz from ...

The letter served well as a reminder of how undemocratic and dysfunctional our “First Past the Post” electoral system is. Forty per cent of the votes traditionally elect majority governments ...