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Several familiar faces gave acceptance speeches at the Emmy Awards on Sunday night, with Jon Stewart back after a lengthy hiatus from “The Daily Show” and the restaurateurs played by...

There was Carol Moseley Braun, the Illinois Democrat who in 1992 became the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate. Nearly a quarter-century would pass before Kamala Harris became...

It was lying in the street, rocking gently with the turns of a placid wind. At first I thought it was some bit of detritus set free by a garbage...

The 76th Primetime Emmys took place at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday night, a ceremony its co-host Dan Levy celebrated as “broadcast TV’s biggest night for honoring...

In Caddo, Okla., a two-block stretch of the small town contains churches of at least four denominations, Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist and nondenominational. More than four in five voters in the...

Once upon a time, there was a plucky little ballet company that bravely toured all over the realm, bringing swans and fairies and tutus to all. Founded by a King...

For much of the American shale boom of the last two decades, natural gas producers found that the more they pumped, the more demand grew, as cheaper gas displaced coal....

If Tony Tulathimutte’s new book, a collection of linked stories titled “Rejection,” were a futuristic pop-up book, up would jump unflattering sex pics, medicine for cauliflower acne, unreturned texts, hateful...

On a recent morning in Fort Worth, Cally Smoke faced a crisis of choice. She scrolled through the litany of drinks on an ordering kiosk at CosMc’s, a new beverage...

I spent my second day in Iceland in a hotel on the outskirts of Reykjavik, trying resolutely to knit. Gathered around a coffee table with me were Ragga Sjofu Jóhannsdóttir,...