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Fresh out of college, in the summer of 1991, I went looking for a first job in my hometown of Washington, D.C. Thanks to several prior stints as a research assistant, and despite knowing little about the Holocaust, I was hired as a researcher in the...

The actor, currently appearing in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in the West End, was here to answer your questions. Find out how she learned to sing, what happened when Bill Bailey got trapped inside a piano and why Mark Heap is a nightmare...

“It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive or who had ever been alive.” – James Baldwin It was with horror and disgust that I read about Trump’s ban on...

With Christmas upon us, I'm going to depart dramatically from my usual format, and share a true story from my childhood.  I'm spending the holiday with family (updates will be sporadic or non-existent for the next two weeks), and due to certain...

By John Mikolsevek History is full of great men and great deeds. All American schoolchildren know the story of George Washington crossing the Delaware River in the dead of winter during the Revolutionary War. Yet how many are told of Washington’s less...