On the ground floor of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, is an exhibition titled “Food: Transforming the American table 1950-2000” with Julia Child’s kitchen as its crown jewel. It traces the most important moments in the history of American food, from the invention of the refrigerator to the introduction of canned goods to the pervasiveness corn in processed foods.
So, Greece is in dire straits, and the rest of Europe is being tough on its poor, debt-ridden cousin. Germany is being especially firm, and most Germans agree with their chancellor, Angela Merkel: A debt is a debt, and debts must be paid.
“Ἀναρχίας δὲ μεῖζον οὐκ ἔστιν κακόν,“ ”there is nothing worse than disobedience to authority,” says Creon, King of Thebes, when faced with Antigone’s refusal to accept a decree he has imposed. Creon believes it: The rules are rules, and respecting them guarantees a people’s happiness. Creon believes in order, in the wisdom of ages, in the status quo. Antigone represents all that he rejects: A young, fiercely independent woman—a 441 BCE feminist, if you will—she fights the hardness of rules that don’t keep into account what is right. Creon can’t so much as stand the thought of a woman imposing her will—”no woman shall be the master while I live,” he professes—but Antigone does anyway. Tragedy (sure to happen when Sophocles sings the score) ensues, and of the worst kind.
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Even as Uber conquers the world’s cities, it also seems to wrong-foot itself at almost every opportunity. Its latest fumble was in Beirut, where the car-on-demand service launched a promotion targeting the partygoers of the Lebanese capital, where it has operated since July 2014.
Divorce and separation have long been an issue for the Roman Catholic church, which officially forbids both; it considers marriage a sacrament and therefore unbreakable. ”What God has joined, men must not divide,” pronounces the officiant at the end of a Catholic wedding.
As soon as Hillary Clinton announced her presidential bid, commentators began dissecting each and every aspect of her communications strategy. Despite a few critics, many noted that the launch video successfully positioned Clinton’s campaign as a collective effort, successfully avoiding the idea that Clinton was “destined” for the presidency.
For a US ally, Italy is really quite friendly with Russia. Diplomatically, the two countries have what the Italian ministry of foreign affairs refers to as “privileged relations.” Economically, their ties are even stronger: Russia is Italy’s third-largest trade partner. This is perhaps why Russian president Vladimir Putin was so generous with his time when, on June 6, he sat for a two-hour-long interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
London will equip its police officers with 20,000 body cameras by next March, the city’s administration has announced. The plan will “make the technology available to more officers in a single city than anywhere else in the world,” said mayor Boris Johnson in his administration’s announcement of the move.
For all the awareness of the pay gap between men and women in the US, the numbers haven’t budged very much in recent years. The median salary for female workers is only 78% of the median salary for men.
When my father died in a car accident at 34, my mother was 38. She had two young daughters: I was eight at the time, my sister was five. In the face of a sorrow I can barely imagine, my mother had to keep going, somehow. After all, she had her job as a teacher to keep her busy, a family to provide for, responsibilities and commitments to take care of. Life does not come with a manual on how to survive the sudden death of your spouse. And yet she managed to be graceful, and loving, teaching us to marvel at life’s many wonders.
Zhang Xiaogang is one of the most influential contemporary artists of China. For years, his work has enjoyed the attention of collectors. His artworks have also been acquired by the most prestigious galleries (MoMA and Tate Modern amongst others) and exhibited in the world’s most important venues—including the São Paulo Biennale (1994), the Venice Biennale (1995) and, more recently, the Shibuya Art Center in Tokyo (2006).
That women care about being liked because society rewards them for it is hardly news. Women who push for what they want are routinely judged for it and called bossy. Being liked and being successful just don’t appear to go hand in hand.
Women around the world sleep more than men—or at least, women who track their sleep through their smartphones do.
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been questioned before about the donor list for the family foundation that her husband, former president Bill Clinton, started after he left office. Among the supporters of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation are foreign governments with questionable records on women’s rights, including Saudi Arabia—a bit problematic considering Clinton’s message of female empowerment.
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Japan’s economy is recovering, but its problems are far from over. Among the likely tests to its future growth prospects: The poor basic computing skills of its under-30 generation.
Equal pay for equal work: A simple enough concept that somehow doesn’t seem to easily translate into practice.
For most Americans, Memorial Day is about barbecues, big furniture sales, and trips out of town. But for the many who’ve been touched by war directly—those who are veterans, or family of veterans—there often isn’t much to celebrate.
The polls just closed in Ireland, and many fervently hope that the result will be the legalization of gay marriage.
It’s that time of the year again—the time someone in the US comes up with a new, seemingly absurd “thing” that then becomes a trend. Last year, it was normcore. This year, it appears to be the dad bod.
They hide inside suitcases. Under the bottom of cars. Or even inside the back bumper. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have been paying thousands of dollars to cross the Mediterranean—for a trip that, they know, might end up in death. Yet, a thin chance at life somewhere else is better than the absence of a future at home.
The Washington Post first pointed it out, following a tip from a reader. Something’s up with Google Maps in Washington, DC. If you search for the slur, “nigger” or “nigga” in combination with “king” or “house” on Google Maps, it returns a rather shocking result: The White House.
There’s something incredibly captivating about abandoned palaces. They embody so many of our quintessential fears: the passing of time, loneliness, the specter of the end, decadence. And yet—or perhaps because of this—we also find them beautiful, quintessentially charming even. French photographer Aurélien Villette knows this well. Villette has spent years traveling the world in search of dilapidated buildings, from theaters to mansions to chapels. The striking color photographs of his finds capture the majesty of their emptiness, as well as the irreversible nature of their abandonment.
