Mia Love, who was the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress and the first Black member of Congress from Utah, is ...

Born in Toronto in 1944, Lorne David Lipowitz, as Lorne Michaels was known at birth, was, like all baby boomers, seemingly predisposed to undermine, question, and, above all, parody the ...

A titan of cinema, John Wayne’s towering legacy in Hollywood is undeniable. As the iconic symbol of American masculinity, he commanded the screen for decades, epitomising strength, resolve, and ...

It was 80 years ago today when the Allies won the Battle of Iwo Jima after a month of intense fighting with the Japanese. Just a couple of years after the Second World War, John Wayne starred in ...

Many of John Green’s novels offer a snapshot of young adult reading culture in the 2010s – star-crossed teenage lovers and “manic pixie dream girl” characters, Tumblr quotes and metaphors ...

Marrying John Lennon brought Yoko Ono a dizzying degree of reflected fame. But her life story is nervy, compelling and shockingly sad both with and without him. Ono’s wealthy but emotionally ...

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The phrase “Give me liberty or give me death!” has been expressed by protesters from the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising in China to those who opposed COVID-19 restrictions in the U.S. in 2020.

Linguist and Columbia University professor John McWhorter is a podcast host, the author of 20 books, and a contributing ...

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The die was cast. Joined by pal Hart Pomerantz, and initially bearing his original name, Michaels performed as the comedy duo Lipowitz and Pomerantz. Later, the pair became the eponymous co-hosts ...