House Democrats have flatly denied Republicans’ request to call the anonymous whistleblower to testify during upcoming public impeachment inquiry hearings, and have indicated they’re unlikely to approve several others Republicans are hoping to hear from. President Donald Trump has responded…
Prunella Clough, a superbly weird British modernist who died in 1999, at the age of eighty, was fond of a quote by Édouard Manet: “Painting is like throwing oneself into the sea to learn to swim.” Looking at art can…
A short documentary shows how commuters, city planners, and kids deal with the wall that divides their cities. “Isn’t it so fascinating that the simple act of drawing a line on a map can transform the way we see and…
Last month, on a warm Tuesday evening, Les Filles de Illighadad—a guitar-based Tuareg quartet from western Niger—played for a sold-out crowd at Pioneer Works, an art and performance space in Red Hook, Brooklyn. This was the first time the band…
Vaping was introduced into the US market as a tool for helping adult smokers quit. But that’s not who has been buying e-cigarettes in mass. The latest survey data on adolescent e-cigarette use, published this week in JAMA, shows another…
On Sunday, November 3, at 2 am, we’ll turn our clocks back one hour, heralding the end of daylight saving time for much of the country. The biggest consequence: The change shifts daylight back into the morning hours. For 9-to-5…