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Tiona Nekkia McClodden Is Not Running Away

PHILADELPHIA — The artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden hit the gun range on a sweltering Monday in July. The…

Longtime University President’s Legacy: A Diverse New Generation in STEM

BALTIMORE — Late one night in the fall of 2020, when Kizzmekia Corbett learned the vaccine she had…

The Crypto Market Crashed. They’re Still Buying Bitcoin.

“If you call out someone’s risks they’re taking, and they’re otherwise healthy, you can be accused of creating…

Liz Cheney Is Prepared to Lose Power, and It Shows

If you start clicking these binaries together, you can trace logical paths to wildly different arguments about the…

Santtu-Matias Rouvali Knows His Way Around a Score, and a Farm

YLÖJÄRVI, Finland — “Here I grow peas,” the conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali said, gesturing to a plot of land…

Mike Judge Brings Back ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’

Now that the show is on a streaming platform, did you ever consider using more explicit language or…

B.J. Novak Went to Texas Looking for ‘Vengeance’ and Found America

A funny story that B.J. Novak likes to tell from the making of his new movie is about…

The Japanese Author Behind ‘Bullet Train’ Is OK That the Film Isn’t So Japanese

SENDAI, Japan — Kotaro Isaka, one of Japan’s most popular crime thriller writers, is a self-described homebody. He…

Why Brandon Perea’s ‘Nope’ Audition Made Jordan Peele Cry

And then you heard about “Nope”?I got an email for an untitled Jordan Peele project, my first big…

He’s Baseball’s Only Mud Supplier. It’s a Job He May Soon Lose.

LONGPORT, N.J. — A 45-gallon rubber barrel sits in a cluttered garage along the Jersey Shore, filled waist-high…

With ‘Surface,’ Gugu Mbatha-Raw Steps Into New Territory

LONDON — A few minutes into “Surface,” a new eight-part series from Apple TV+, the central character, Sophie,…

Maggie Rogers’s Higher Calling

Like a lot of artists during the early days of the pandemic, Maggie Rogers was living a sequestered,…