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In the news for the week ending May 27, 2022, are a real-life movie cop, a new Coke bottle, a pickle magnate, a cookie/cracker combo, and more.
In the news for the week ending May 27, 2022, are a real-life movie cop, a new Coke bottle, a pickle magnate, a cookie/cracker combo, and more.
In the news for the week ending January 21, 2022, are a giant asteroid, soupy candles, a copyright conundrum, dog photos, and more.
In the news for the week ending May 28, 2021, are bug cuisine, hamburgers, an expensive equation, hamburgers, an unexpected literary find, hamburgers, a home for a stooge, hamburgers, and more.
What would it mean to define the Civil War not as a tragic conflict between divided Northern and Southern states, but as a necessary and crucial final step in the long, even more tragic history of slavery in America?
The origins of Memorial Day illustrate some of the worst and the best of Reconstruction, race, and American history and identity.
How well do you know your federal holidays? You might be surprised at the political maneuvering, specific reasons, and just plain weirdness that’s occasionally attached to national days of observance.
In the news for the week ending May 26, 2017, are the return of hardcover books, a new museum for the people who wrote them, a sort-of revelation that journalists aren’t normal, the death of a double-oh-seven, and more.
How useful are nutrition labels? Who will be the next James Bond? Who will win all those Mad Men props? Will the documentary about Rose Marie find funding? Find all these questions — and a few answers — in the latest News of the Week.