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During an appearance on CNN’s weekly media show, Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple took the opportunity to call out the network for allowing anchor Chris Cuomo to conduct a series of fawning “love-a-thon” interviews with his brother Andrew Cuomo last year, deeming the chats a “major black eye” for CNN.

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Fox News anchor Chris Wallace took Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) to task on Sunday over his opposition to the recently passed $1.9-trillion coronavirus relief package, asking the Republican lawmaker if he felt that the people in his state didn’t “need the money.”

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Dr. Anthony Fauci used a sports metaphor to express concern on Sunday morning that some states are rushing to end mask mandates and other coronavirus restrictions as cases around the country have plateaued, likening the early reopenings to spiking the “ball on the five-yard line.”

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“I wasn’t prepared for the backlash,” says Adrienne Chalepah. “Or the death threats.”

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The Great Passion Play in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, has multiple attractions on its property, including tours of a replica Holy Land, a 67-foot tall hilltop statue of Christ, and several museums. But the main attraction is their play based on the last days of Christ, which features more than a hundred performers, live animals, and pyrotechnics. The show culminates with (mild spoiler alert) Jesus ascending to the heavens with the aid of a concealed wire rig.

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Wherever you go, people have their giants. The ancient Greeks had Atlas, the Titan who holds up the world, and Polyphemus, the cyclops who liked to eat people. Norse legend describes a Hrungnir, a belligerent drunk who boasted that he could kill the gods. Japanese folklore has the oni, fearsome former humans who favor the taste of mortal flesh. And J. K. Rowling has Hagrid, who has questionable taste in pets. Arguably the most famous of the giants, though, is Goliath the biblical antihero who... Читать дальше...

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For much of the last half-century we have been living, even cowering, under the threat posed by what Paul Ehrlich in 1968 called the “population bomb.” In Ehrlich’s scenario, widely adopted by the environmental movement and its corporate supporters, ever-increasing numbers would overwhelm the resource base and the food supply and would cause dystopian mayhem across the planet.

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COVID-19, which has caused so much damage to America, might also be what finally kills the SAT and ACT, the high-stakes college admissions tests administered by the Educational Testing Service and that largely determine access to higher education. In a typical year, 77 percent of high school graduates took these tests. This year it was only 44 percent. That is a seismic shift, and one worth cheering should it prove permanent.

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Seemingly immune to the pandemic blues, Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar has kept incessantly busy. “I don’t how to live on vacation. This is my life,” he tells me over the phone while in a moving vehicle traveling across his homeland’s countryside. This transfer between locations is the only time he could allocate to chat. The tireless auteur—patron saint of complicated mothers, heartbroken women, and male eroticism—is currently in pre-production on his upcoming feature, Madres paralelas... Читать дальше...

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Deodorant might be the most forgettable grooming necessity. No one ever gets excited about it. Which one do you use? Probably whatever your parents did. When does it expire? Not until it dries out and hardens into a congealed brick that doubles as a blunt force weapon. What should it smell like? Nothing too floral or “girly.”

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The Mountain State is having a moment. Joe Manchin is the most powerful U.S. senator in America, and West Virginia Governor Jim Justice is earning plaudits for his handling of vaccines and support for wearing masks. It’s a remarkable turnaround for a state you hardly ever think of (or when you do, it’s not good). Now, the Rodney Dangerfield of states is finally getting some much-needed respect.

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The Grammys have found themselves in trouble again. With the number of controversies the Recording Academy has garnered—and dismissed—over this past decade, including repeated accusations of racism and sexism, and a lawsuit that alleges both sexual harassment and voting fraud, it’s hard to even discern what “trouble” means for the seemingly unassailable institution. But a big move by The Weeknd ahead of Sunday’s broadcast has music fans wondering... Читать дальше...

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Over the past several weeks, audiences have been watching—and endlessly debating—Allen v. Farrow, the eye-opening HBO docuseries examining Dylan Farrow’s allegation that on Aug. 4, 1992, her adoptive father, Woody Allen, took a 7-year-old Dylan up to the attic of their Connecticut country home and molested her.

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It’s not hard to see that the Republican Party was the Party of Trump during the four years he was president. But what kind of party are they now? Honestly, it’s hard to tell.

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President Joe Biden has directed personnel from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the U.S.-Mexico border to deal with a mounting influx of unaccompanied migrant teens and children.

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As mid-March approached, colleges and coastal cities braced for the inevitable: swarms of students fresh out of Zoom school looking to do keg stands in a global pandemic.