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For most of 2014, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough oversaw a stealthy effort to prod Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel into accelerating the release of prisoners from Guantánamo Bay—one of Barack Obama’s most conspicuously unfulfilled campaign...

AN UNFINISHED WOMAN Screenwriter Stuart Ross Fink created the character of Harriet Lauler specifically with Shirley MacLaine in mind. The star of some of his favorite movies, from The Apartment to Terms of Endearment and Being There, MacLaine personified...

Warning: this is not the usual blog post. It’s quite long. It’s a fictionalized version of a true story. I wrote it to try to understand the greatest mystery of this crime: why did he do it? Contents 1. Dealing the cards – 5 January 1783 Abraham-Louis...

Death claimed transcendent political figures in 2016, including Cuba’s revolutionary leader and Thailand’s longtime king, but also took away royals of a different sort: kings of pop music, from Prince and David Bowie to George Michael. Embracing Soviet...

Some I am unfamiliar with but I hope this is the complete list, No More: JANUARY: Dale Bumpers, 90. Former Arkansas governor and U.S. senator who earned the nickname "giant killer" for taking down incumbents, and who gave a passionate speech defending...