Former National Security Council official Fiona Hill gave an account of a tense White House meeting that’s key to the impeachment inquiry, in a deposition transcript released Friday. At this July 10 sit-down between Trump administration officials and Ukrainian officials,…
When Cynthia Nixon was eleven years old, she auditioned for a workshop with the director Mike Nichols. Nixon, who is now fifty-one, recently described the thinking behind her strategy at the time. “You know, child actors, they’re so annoying, and…
Halfway through the first act of Anna Deavere Smith’s new one-woman show, “Notes from the Field,” Smith, whose plays are made up of what she calls “portraits” of Americans, takes on the persona of the Reverend Jamal Bryant to deliver,…
Virginia Woolf often wandered around London for hours, working through ideas as she walked. One favorite route took her from placid Bloomsbury into seedy Soho, where she haggled over silk stockings at the Berwick Street Market. These excursions exhilarated her:…
Here are some numbers we need to reckon with: the number of suicide deaths in people ages 15 to 24, over 36 years in the United States. As you can see in this chart, after a steep drop in the…
The outbreak of the mysterious vaping-related illness has reached 1,299 cases and 26 deaths across the country, said Centers for Disease Control and Prevention principal deputy director Anne Schuchat on Friday. That’s an increase of 219 cases from last week…