Sex was the inescapable theme of the final Sundance Film Festival held in Park City, Utah, before the film world’s leading indie showcase moves to Boulder, Colo. You might say Sundance is leaving with a bang: One illustrative offering was “I Want Your Sex,” and its title became an unofficial motto for the gathering. (Smith, The Wall Street Journal)
Read More“When people use that term toxic friend-group, what they’re talking about is a classic clique,” said Noëlle Santorelli, a clinical psychologist in Atlanta, who specializes in relational aggression including mean-girl dynamics among teens and adults. “Cliques have hierarchies and social rules.” (Weiss, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreThe Census Bureau’s first snapshot of population data for 2025 confirms some big trends, like a major shift in immigration as the U.S. cracks down on border crossings and steps up deportations. (Camp, Rust & McGill, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreMullally, 63, became the archbishop of Canterbury, making her the first woman to lead the Church of England. The worldwide Anglican Communion, which includes the Episcopal Church in the U.S., has no formal head, but the archbishop traditionally has been seen as its spiritual leader. (Kirka, AP News)
Read MoreThe new high surpasses the last peak in life expectancy in 2019, and it's the highest since the government started tracking this key measure of the nation's health and well-being in 1900. (Stein, NPR)
Read MoreWhile Germany’s national exhibition centre was being built in the Eighties, the conservative chancellor Helmut Kohl was promising to lead a revival of traditional “bourgeois virtues” and selling sex was still legally classified as an activity that “violates good public morals”. (Moody, The Times)
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