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During an interception return in the third quarter of last week’s game between the Carolina Panthers and the Green Bay Packers, Panthers cornerback Thomas Davis appeared to relish the rare opportunity to play the role of...

No one would ever claim that 2017 was a slow news year. In fact, so much happened that events that seemed like a big deal at the time have already faded from our memories, crowded out...

Writtrn by ANGELLA D’AVIGNON   Power dressing is usually associated with white-collar women of the 1970s and ’80s—women who dressed for success. This look was iconic in its caricature: architectural shoulder pads, big hair, double-breasted jackets, and sensible...

Nationalism, often expressed in religious terms, is a key organizing principle in President Trump’s foreign policy. One of the great paradoxes of Donald Trump is that, for a president who is among the least overtly pious...

This has been a difficult year for Muslims. I’m referring not only to the external forces that buffet us daily—anti-Muslim hate crimes, inflammatory tweets or President Trump’s travel ban—but also to the internal ruptures that have...

The Skyy boxing gym outside Tuscaloosa is hard to spot from the end of the dirt road, tucked into the rear of the nondescript aluminum-sided building on a quiet offshoot of Route 30 not far from...

You may remember our friend and social media influencer Simonetta Lein from last New York Fashion Week. Recently, we caught up with her to get her thoughts about the upcoming holiday season.   What do the holidays...

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This article contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. For 40 years, the Star Wars saga has largely been one of good guys and bad guys, of the Rebels and the Empire, of the Light Side and...

It was the best of years, it was the … no, wait, it was just the best of years: 2017 for television was like 1867 in Russian literature: alive with creativity, unexpectedness and creative works of...