Ancient Burial Ground of Elites in Ukraine Reveals Brief History of Europe
A strange burial in an ornate cauldron, burials with horses and more show multiple cultures in ancient western Ukraine in Roman times, and hint at why it was so In…
Anastasia (2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohYLMdMSs4Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohYLMdMSs4Q Russian activist Anastasia Shevchenko was arrested and detained under house arrest for two years for speaking out against the government. During her imprisonment, she was separated from her…
Superstorm Sandy legacy: Recovery far from equal on NY shore
NEW YORK (AP) — Even before Superstorm Sandy’s floodwaters surged over New York City’s Rockaway Peninsula, there was an air of decay in Edgemere, a far-flung seaside neighborhood long pockmarked with boarded-up…
The China Conundrum: Does Xi Jinping’s All-powerful Status Make War Inevitable?
In the past 500 years, when a rising power has challenged an existing one, war has broken out on 12 of those 16 occasions. Can the Americans and Chinese avoid…
The Public Theater
We are beyond thrilled to share that The Public Theater’s Board of Trustees has unanimously selected arts supporter, activist, and longtime board member Luis A. Miranda, Jr. as our next board chair! Luis is…
“I Am Free … But Who Is Left?” (2022)
"I Am Free … But Who Is Left?” is a new documentary created by Joanne Weiner Rudof and Lawrence Langer with Yale's Fortunoff Video Archive For Holocaust Testimonies that tells their…
Creaking chains a reminder of slavery in New York art exhibit
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new art installation that visitors can walk through on New York’s Governors Island features giant chain links grinding overhead, pointing to the legacy of slavery…
First Committee Horror Stories
As the threat of nuclear war shrouds the world in a fog, bringing grave unease and anxiety, many people are looking to the UN for answers. Surely the gathering of…
Carly Simon Loses Both Sisters to Cancer: Broadway Composer Lucy Simon And Opera Singer Joanna Simon Die One Day Apart
Musician Carly Simon has lost both of her sisters, Lucy and Joanna, to cancer one day apart from each other. Lucy, known throughout her life and career as a composer…
At more than 3 tons, this massive sunfish is the heaviest bony fish ever discovered, researchers say
Updated 5:23 pm EDT Oct. 21, 2022 A team of scientists in Portugal say they discovered the heaviest bony fish in the world in the Azores archipelago in the Atlantic…