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The New Yorker turns 100 − how a poker game pipe...

Christopher B. Daly, Boston University Literate in tone, far-reaching in scope, and witty to its bones, The New Yorker...
Producers Fast Eddie and Joe Smooth mix at DJ International Studios in Chicago in 1990. Innovation was at the forefront of house and hip-hop. Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

From breakbeats to the dance floor: How hip-hop and house revolutionized...

Joycelyn Wilson, Georgia Institute of Technology There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical...
Dylan and singer-songwriter Mimi Farina relax at the Viking Hotel in Newport, R.I., in July 1964. John Byrne Cooke Estate/Getty Images

Bob Dylan and the creative leap that transformed modern music

Ted Olson, East Tennessee State University The Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” starring Timothée Chalamet, focuses on Dylan’s...

NYC’s ‘Eric Adams Show’ heads for a final curtain, with echoes...

Lincoln Mitchell, Columbia University As the Democratic primary for mayor in New York approached in the spring of 2021,...

Big-box retail chains were never a solution for America’s downtowns −...

Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Hunter College Holiday shopping is in full swing, but city dwellers may have fewer options for...

‘Knowledge of self’: How a key phrase from Islam became a...

Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, University of Michigan I was 9 years old when Eric B. and Rakim’s “Paid in Full”...

Monkeypox vaccines: A virologist answers 6 questions about how they work,...

Maureen Ferran, Rochester Institute of Technology Monkeypox isn’t going to be the next COVID-19. But with the outbreak having...

Ending testing for New York City’s gifted program may be another...

Joni Lakin, University of Alabama After years of relying on a single controversial test at age 4 for admission...

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