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• Actress Heather Graham says she sometimes questions her decision not to have children
• Why do Arabs chop off hands? Why do they admire the thief who gets away with his crime?
• The second birth of JMW Turner
• The Spectator P.M. Ep. 133: The Next Pope and the Future of the Church - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• The Demise of Outdoor Dining Isn’t Really Anyone’s Preference. So How Did We End Up Here?
• How to deal with your mother-in-law's hostility when you make love to her son?
• Ask Prudence: What to say to your mom-in-law when she tries to catch you
• The Rehearsal’s Latest Episode Makes a Very Dark Joke. But It Doesn’t End There.
• YouTube channel Duncombe House Diaries chronicles the restoration of a 200-year-old house
• The Vietnamese diaspora has mourned our homeland’s loss for 50 years – and our ghosts can return at any moment | André Dao
• Did the Enlightenment Really Happen? – Kevin Schmiesing
• This week, Zak, Elizabeth and Lucy take a question about how to handle birthday money
• One Half-Tipsy Yank with a Typewriter
• The Dark Ages were the centuries following the fall of Rome circa 500 AD
• The Cornerstone of the World - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• CNN’s primetime ratings dipped below 500,000 viewers, with less than 100,000 of those coming from the 25-54-year-old demographic
• We now leave navigation to our phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost | John Harris
• The Sunday — April 27
• Researchers accidentally discovered an ancient megacity in a Mexican jungle
• Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Lower Than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity
• Of course the Clooneys never argue. In a fantasy world of riches and beauty, I wouldn't either | Rachel Connolly
• Louis Theroux: The Settlers is a deathly warning
• Tom Hanks, Samurai Swords, and Neo-Nazis — Yes, Really! - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Cardinal electors cannot fix in their minds that Pope Francis was a Saint, writes Paul Kengor
• The Rifle and Rally at the Zoo - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Correction and clarifications relate to articles published by Observer when it was part of Guardian News and Media
• The National Endowment for the Humanities is offering $600,000 to American artists to sculpt historical figures for a new National Garden of American Heroes
• I’m tired of art that defines Muslims as defiant of stereotypes. So I didn’t think I needed another show about 9/11. But Ramy Youssef has delivered some of the most cathartic television I’ve seen in years
• Matt and Elysha Dicks have one core fight that replays over and over, in different disguises, over the course of their relationship
• It’s the Biggest Story in Rock Music. Hardly Anyone Is Talking About It.
• Kneecap make me ashamed to be Irish
• The Number One News Story in America and the World
• In Memoriam: Keith Edward Windschuttle, 1942-2025 - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• A Minecraft Movie has made over $700 million at the box office. Here’s why
• Frontier Myanmar is seeking a Managing Editor to lead our newsroom
• ‘Peanut the Squirrel’ Update - Judicial Watch
• Italy, Giorgia Meloni, and the Future of the West - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• toile is a new show from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino
• The glorious failures of Jolyon Maugham
• The UK’s water watchdogs are not fit for purpose
• Netflix's Adolescence, about a 13-year-old boy's murder of a female classmate, is a master class in how to cheapen otherwise excellent art through over-determination and ideological politicization
• Sweet Melodies of the Catacombs – Richard Gunderman
• Review: How video games can connect us to the world
• This week on Slate Plus, Jenée and Willa answer listener questions
• Machiavelli in America - Washington Examiner
• Joan Didion, Mother - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Michelle Obama is tarnishing her legacy by admitting she would rather practice the art of saying ‘No’ than do the right thing
• "Pope killer": Bowen Yang shocks "The View" with his comments on JD Vance
• With proposed glue trap ban, San Francisco sides with the pests
• Pete Davidson is removing all his tattoos, a process that will take years and cost well into six figures
• Mourners at the viewing of Pope Francis are complaining about the number of people taking selfies
• Ask Prudence: What to ask your father if he left a tell-tale stain on the bed?
• Rosie O’Donnell says she was shocked that Ellen DeGeneres moved out of the U.S. after Trump was re-elected
• Against the Tyranny of Opinionated Ignorance
• What's certain: The papal conclave will be a contest between two competing visions of Catholicism
• A three-part Netflix documentary, Bad Influence, paints a troubling picture of the no-rules world of child influencing
• This week’s Now That I’ve Left, a column from noted ex-wife Scaachi Koul
• Brickbat: Come at the King
• Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
• A high school singing audition inspired by Flashdance haunted me for years – until I found my voice again | Nova Weetman
• The First Shadow is a glorified teaser for the final season of Stranger Things
• The legacy of Pope Francis: Letters to the Editor — April 24, 2025
• How to do it: I’m a 42-year-old woman and I have an interesting situationship with a guy friend of mine. What can we do to make the sexting sessions as hot as the sexting?
• How an ‘anti-terrorism’ law cancelled a flower show
• Eva Longoria says diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is 'good for business' on 'The View'
• Critics falsely accused JD Vance of committing a faux pas while visiting the Vatican, claiming his team did not have permission to take photos in the Sistine Chapel
• I’ve promised to buy all lunch in return for the best chippy in Brighton. This is a bold claim, but it takes a special kind of stupid to imagine
• The road that built England
• I, Jack Hall is a riot of a show
• The road that built England
• New Details Emerge in Viral Squirrel’s Seizure and Death Read More: New Details Emerge In Viral Squirrel’s Seizure And Death - Judicial Watch
• The sinking of the Titanic is one of those historic events that only grows more vivid in our cultural imagination
• From Omar El Akkad to Laura Spinney: new books reviewed in short
• The first and last New Journalist
• Letter of the week: The stories we tell
• From the 1960s through the 1990s, Wink Martindale helmed several popular game shows, making him a fixture in viewers’ lives for decades
• If you know someone graduating high school or college next month, here's what to give them
• Help! I Want to Get Families With Loud, Reckless Kids Kicked Out of Restaurants.
• 41% of children in Vienna's schools are Muslim. How much longer will Austria survive?
• The most gripping thing I’m watching on my phone? Swedish moose migrating in real time | Claire Cohen
• The blind singer cancelled for being anti-abortion
• The late Pope stands as a metaphor for a conflict at the heart of St Peter’s
• Shannon Sharpe naming his accuser reveals the weakening grip of #MeToo, for better or worse
• My fellow Catholics: Don’t read this article about the Papal election - Washington Examiner
• Bill Owens, the longtime executive producer of CBS’s ‘60 Minutes,’ has officially stepped down from the role
• Oscar voters now must watch all nominated films in each category to be eligible to vote
• NY planned to decapitate ‘Peanut’ even before the ‘squirrel raid’ - Judicial Watch
• Europe once hailed as birthplace of free speech, now it seems intent on curtailing it
• Judicial Watch: New York Authorities Planned to Euthanize ‘Peanut the Squirrel’ and ‘Fred the Raccoon’ Before Seizing Them from Owner - Judicial Watch
• Are we still living in 1999?
• Prudie answers your questions about dating, ex-boyfriends, and more
• Unlocking the Secrets in Your Family History Can Be Overwhelming—or Empowering
• It turns out you’re never too old to go Interrailing around Europe | Phil Mongredien
• What if the finest actor in America is the guy we all assumed was a joke?
• "My Dinner with Adolf": Larry David roasts Bill Maher's meeting with Trump in satirical NYT essay
• Pope Francis’ gift to us was his big heart — he lives forever
• Trump says he and Melania will attend the funeral of Pope Francis
• Even a $1 billion funding freeze hasn’t stopped Cornell from inviting a virulent antisemitic musical artist
• American manufacturer welcomes level playing field against China - Washington Examiner
• Prudence: My family is pressuring me to apologize and make up with my brother. Do you have a script for telling them to back off?