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Rupert Murdoch and his oldest kids are battling over who controls his media empire when the 93-year-old dies. The Atlantic writer McKay Coppins explains the stakes and how it could change Fox News.

April 2025 marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam war. Washington, D.C.’s first Vietnamese American art exhibit examines what it means to be Vietnamese and looks forward with hope.

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Reid is a longtime political commentator who has been vocal on progressive issues and sharply critical of President Trump.

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On a flight home, Caitlin Shetterly told the man next to her that after 9/11, flying made her nervous. Then the man told her something she’ll never forget: “Most people are good.”

Gray Wool Sweater: You are in a TV commercial, struggling to play with your grandchild because of your rheumatoid arthritis.

The Netflix series Zero Day begins with a terrifying moment in which everything in the United States goes briefly offline. Thousands of people die, and even after everything is restored, a widespread panic leads to a government investigation of who did it. With a cast headed by Robert De Niro and Angela Bassett, the show hopes to be a paranoid political thriller for our times.

Pedro Almodóvar is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of all time. He’s the director of the movies Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down, Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown and, most recently, The Room Next Door . He chats with us about his dramatic endeavor Julieta, his new wave band, and his unseen ailment.

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Philip Shenon talks about the past seven popes, and how efforts to reform the Church with the Second Vatican Council led to power struggles and doctrinal debates that lasted for decades.

Live Fast won France’s top literary prize in 2022. Brigitte Giraud’s haunting book revisits the death of her husband in a motorcycle crash 20-odd years earlier.

The papal thriller and the lead in Bob Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ were surprise winners on Sunday, adding a few final wrinkles to an unusually unpredictable awards season.

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