At times it’s as though such authors are obeying Isherwood’s dictum: “I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”

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France is investing $290 million to make the city of Paris completely cyclable by 2026.

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The first pleasure railway ever built may have been a miniature train constructed for the family of Louis XIV, pushed by servants.

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For the season: “Cheers to you, Friendsgiving” (2019), by Atlanta-based portrait painter Ariel Dannielle.

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Everyone seemed to instinctively know, back then, that when a woman’s body and sexuality were violated, the person to blame was the woman, especially if she was a woman of color. She brought it on herself by having …

Does disdain for women increase the pay gap? “Yes.” Some hypotheses as to why—and why men in some states search for rape videos.

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Photographer Phyllis Christopher remembers 1990s lesbian San Francisco. “It was a really special critical mass of queers.”

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A new comics anthology launched in response to the climate crisis.

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Scottish engineers say “marine energy”—wind turbines dunked into the sea—could work within a decade.

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