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How Donald Trump and his Jeffrey Epstein scandal lay bare our racist roots

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal stripped away the polite fiction that wealthy white men in America are held to the same standards as everyone else. Epstein wasn’t an exception. He was the rule, laid bare. From the first days of European settlement, powerful white men have moved through this country with a kind of immunity that […]

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Review: A Cozy ‘Arabella’ Returns to the Met Opera

The composer Richard Strauss and the author Hugo von Hofmannsthal had one of the great partnerships in opera. But eventually their collaboration showed signs of exhaustion. For two decades they had worked together on hits like “Der Rosenkavalier,” which features the beloved Marschallin. She was so adored that she haunted Strauss and Hofmannsthal in 1928 […]

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Eminem Pinpoints the Rap Track That Would Shape His Entire Career at Only 9 Years Old

Before there was Eminem or Slim Shady, there was Marshall Mathers. As a child, the rap icon actually had little exposure to hip-hop music until his Uncle Ronnie came along. Forever changing the course of music, Ronnie gifted his nephew the soundtrack to the 1980s movie Breakin‘, featuring Ice-T. In 1999, Eminem sat down for a […]

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Solid gold toilet ‘artwork’ created by infamous artist who taped a banana to a wall sells for £9.5m – and it works

A GOLDEN toilet has sold for a whopping £9million - barely £1.5million more than its worth in gold. Modern artist Maurizio Cattelan's 18 carat fully-working bog was sold to the first bidder, said by auction house Sotheby's to be a major US brand. Bidding had started at $10m (£7.7m), only just above the value of...

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AOC warns we may be in a ‘massive’ AI bubble with ‘2008-style threats to economic stability’

“We’re talking about a massive economic bubble,” Ocasio-Cortez said at a hearing on Tuesday. “We could see 2008-style threats to economic stability.” AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough AOC says we could be in the midst of a “massive” bubble driven by AI companies. She also said that if a bubble were to pop, the federal government should […]

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