Nicole Chung shares her journey through grief, capitalism and forgiveness Enlarge this image toggle caption Carletta Girma Carletta Girma As a Korean American adoptee raised in Oregon by a white family, Nicole Chung spent years knowing nothing of her biological family. "I remember after my father died, and where some of this book came from, was just this rage that …
He was president of Angola from 1979 to 2017, then retired from public life to a Spanish mansion afterwards. Angola’s longest-serving leader, Jose Eduardo dos Santos has died at the age of 79 in a Barcelona clinic, according to a statement on Facebook by the country’s presidency. Like many of his generation, Mr dos Santos joined the struggle for Angola’s …
"Release your job," chants Big Freedia on Beyoncé's new single, "Break My Soul." Fascism was on the rise as people's economic security grew ever more precarious — hm, relatable — and even in the escapist soap opera of "Downton Abbey," the moneyed Crawley family could feel it coming. Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern star as Robert and Cora Grantham, Robert …
The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008 was a watershed moment in what was eventually dubbed the Great Recession. “The Lehman Trilogy” joins Lucy Prebble’s “Enron” and Ayad Akhtar’s “Junk” in kinetically dramatizing how American capitalism lost its way. The ingenious set by Es Devlin, a rotating glass cube revealing the Lehman Brothers New York office on the eve of …