Boys practice baseball at a park in San Antonio de Guerra, a small municipality in the Dominican Republic. Reuters/Ricardo Rojas Latinos will comprise about 30 percent of Major League Baseball rosters on Opening Day, in…
Miami Marlins fans have little to look forward to this season. AP Photo/Brynn Anderson Major League Baseball is in trouble. But for all of Commissioner Rob Manfred’s concerns about pace of play, he’s looking in…
Teens aren’t necessarily less social, but the contours of their social lives have changed. pxhere Ask a teen today how she communicates with her friends, and she’ll probably hold up her smartphone. Not that she…
Library subjects and call numbers can be the subject of controversy. jakkaje808/shutterstock.com For many years, the Library of Congress categorized many of its books under a controversial subject heading: “Illegal aliens.” But then, on March…
The 2002 installation ‘Rape Garage’ displayed statistics about rape, along with first-person narratives about sexual trauma. Stefanie Bruser, Josh Edwards, Katie Grone and Lindsey Lee. Mixed media site installation at “At Home: A Kentucky Project…
Preliminary drawing of title page for ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ (New York: Harper & Row, 1963), 26:7, The Maurice Sendak Collection. Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of…
Between 2009 and 2017, rates of major depression among 20- to 21-year-olds more than doubled. Ana Ado/Shutterstock.com The first signs of a problem started to emerge around 2014: More young people said they felt overwhelmed…
Norman Douglas, photographed in Florence, Italy in 1935. Carl Van Vetchen/Library of Congress There’s no question that Michael Jackson changed music history. But how will history remember Michael Jackson? Since HBO released the new documentary…
A man dressed as Saint Patrick blesses the crowd in Dublin as the parade makes its way through the Irish capital in 1998. AP Photo/John Cogill In 1997, my students and I traveled to Croagh…
An artificial image created on the Ganbreeder site ugc/Ganbreeder Over the past few years, many artists have started to use what’s called “neural network software” to create works of art. Users input existing images into…