In 2010, I started working on my master’s degree in bioethics in Philadelphia. The focus of my studies, while working...

In gay culture, the expression “coming out” was initially borrowed from the world of debutante balls. But in the 1960s,...

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In 2003, the Concorde stopped ferrying international passengers across the Atlantic Ocean at supersonic speeds, while metaphorically demonstrating how much...

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It was tantamount to a Friday afternoon “news dump.” On Monday, December 21, 2015—amidst the final build-up to Christmas and...

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Though Pope Francis had speaking engagements and meetings in the United States commercial capital of New York City and its...