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Renoir was probably “the last person to have touched" the previously unknown portrait, the auctioneer said.

 

      This year signifies transformation, as if we could molt away           old skins and transform them into expensive clutches, into cold-blooded.   Closed off streets are, to pedestrians, open streets. Every inclusion another’s exclusion.   A student, plaintive: “I’m a Black male who voted for Trump. Is that the colonizer mentality in me?”   I can't use three letters: D, E, or I. Will my research be shut down or embrace Chinese netizens’ euphemisms— “youth in Asia” equals euthanasia. Damn, you crazy, every time I mean democracy.   Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. Also gather? Deer are not evil. They attack when hurt.   These long winter nights. Let’s write shorter lines.       This poem was co-published and supported by the journalism non-profit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.        Celina Su’s academic and creative work focuses on everyday struggles for collective governance. Her last book of poetry was the collection Landia; her latest nonfiction book project centering radical democracy, Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities, is out now from Princeton University Press.            

A survey of 849 professional Santas found that one-third of them don’t match the usual image of a roly-poly bearded white man.

Him? Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name may not appear in Olivia Nuzzi’s forthcoming memoir, American Canto. But the 71-year-old secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services is at the burning core of Nuzzi’s return to the public eye this month, after her firing last year over a “digital affair” with the then-presidential candidate […]

In a year as bad as 2025, pie is not just good for eating.

Younger and more diverse teachers reported higher rates of bullying and discrimination by their colleagues. This can also affect the kids they care for.