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Brand is the be-all-end-all of Donald Trump. And the core of Trump’s brand is that squinty, jut-jowled, unreflective scowl, the Dirty Harry stare he insists on plastering everywhere — book covers, posters, his website—because it advertises his most marketable...

Watch him gallop! Watch him soar! Watch him cradle and rock the baby! Watch him leap and swat! Watch his limbs — impossibly long, but perfectly in sync — as he glides across the court. Nine steps end to end? He grew up destitute...

JUNE 13 In History 823: Birthdate of Charles the Bald, who as Holy Roman Emperor refused to comply with anti-Semitic edicts of Amulo, the Archbishop of Lyon.  In doing so, Charles was following in the footsteps of his grandfather Charlemagne who had...

With each passing month, comic companies release their solicitations for the upcoming months, usually two-three months in advance. We, as the consumer, get an idea of what to expect in the coming months, like what new books are debuting or what books...

In the last decade it has become more and more obvious that we have in America today what the journalists Dana Priest and William Arkin have called two governments: the one its citizens were familiar with, operated more or less in the open: the other...