On Feb. 15, “The Breakfast Club” turns 30 years old. What’s most important about the film, in addition to the way it encapsulates adolescence in the ’80s (along with two…
Black history is all around us. The street corners, churches, stores, apartments, empty lots and parks we pass by everyday share a rich history of the black lives that lived…
The following is an excerpt from The Letters of Langston Hughes, a collection of correspondences between the author and his loved ones and contemporaries. In this particular letter, Hughes eloquently…
Mike Hughes fell in love with Carly four months before she died. Carly Hughes (they have the same last name) was just 23 when she was diagnosed with gastric-esophageal cancer….
The New Republic is a small magazine that set off a big commotion. Late last year the magazine’s owner, Chris Hughes, decided to replace Franklin Foer, a former top editor…
A woman and her family lured her estranged husband to their home by offering to let him see his children, then beat him in the head with a hammer and…
An upcoming issue of The New Republic — the magazine’s first since a large number of its writers and editors resigned in December — will grapple with TNR’s “perceived legacy…