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1) “The Last King of the American Middlebrow” (The New Republic, 14 minutes, November 2014). A [...]

In December of 2008, federal authorities arrested financier Bernie Madoff, alleging that he had been running [...]

Pictured above is a blue ballpoint pen — a Bic Cristal, perhaps the most popular of all ballpoint pen [...]

According to the American Cancer Society, approximately one in nine men will be diagnosed with prostate [...]

1) “The Congressman Who Went Off the Grid ” (Politico, 11 minutes, January 2014). This was easily [...]

The main branch of the New York Public Library, officially the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, is located in [...]

The Nugget Casino Resort, as it’s now known, opened in 1955 in Sparks, Nevada, a suburb of Reno. [...]

Crossword puzzles are, at least in theory, pretty simple. There’s a grid with some blank spaces in which [...]

Major League Baseball got underway over the last few days, with all 30 teams playing their first (fake) games [...]