This 99-year-old ballet teacher once taught Parisian royalty. Now she teaches in Pasadena
In 1953, French journalist J.C. Vérots reviewed the Marquis de Cuevas ballet company’s performance of “Les Sylphides.” The show starred...
China could have the keys to your life savings
Ritchie Torres, a Democrat, represents New York’s 15th Congressional District in the House of Representatives and serves on the Select...
How America’s 250th Birthday Party Split Into 2 Rival Events—and Only One With Trump
President Donald Trump appears on stage during a Freedom 250 event kicking off the Great American State Fair on the...
American playwrights are embracing the nation’s complexity. Will audiences answer the call?
The American democratic experiment stands on shaky ground. Not since the Civil War have these proverbially United States been so...
Where Los Angeles’s ‘mansion tax’ went wrong
Michael Manville is a professor of urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. In 2022, Los Angeles...
The Mischievous, Maddening Marcel Duchamp
Something about art disgusted Marcel Duchamp. Expression, taste, aesthetic intention—anything that gave off a whiff of the precious, he recoiled...
Dodgers fans didn’t buy a ticket for this
Last week, the Los Angeles Dodgers completed their $1.1 million donation to aid immigrant families affected by recent federal immigration...
Lebanon isn’t a ‘small piece of the puzzle.’ It’s the whole game.
President Donald Trump suggested this month that Lebanon is a “very small piece of the puzzle” he’s trying to put...
Elon Musk says SpaceX is putting top Starship and Starlink engineers to work on Grok
Elon Musk said SpaceX would release new AI models "trained from scratch" every month. WEF/Getty imagesSpaceX is shifting "a few...
This European Social Enterprise Is Giving Gen Z Jobs They Actually Want—And Protecting Our Oceans
Sea Rangers taking water samples in the North Sea for plastic pollution tracking. —Courtesy Sea Ranger Service For 17 generations,...
