August 2019

In Dublin, a Home Filled With Mementos From a Photographer’s Travels

“I NEVER THOUGHT I’d actually live in Dublin again,” the photographer Simon Watson says. “I really didn’t.” We are in the spare, sunny kitchen of his red brick house in Monkstown, just outside the Irish capital, where Watson, 49, has lived with his family since 2011. A few years ago, you could still buy power

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A Tom Steyer Debate Spot Is in Limbo. His Money Is Poised to Upend 2020 Anyway.

He has spent millions pressing for the impeachment of President Trump in television ads that promoted himself and his group Need to Impeach, while building up an eight-million-strong email list he can now pay to access (his campaign must technically rent the list, but that is little more than an accounting concern). And he constructed

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Missy Elliott Wins MTV Video Vanguard Award; Twitter Gets Its Freak On

Missy Elliott made everyone lose control when she performed at the 2019 Video Music Awards and took home the MTV Video Vanguard Award. On Monday, the hip-hop legend ― who hadn’t performed at the show in 16 years ― brought down the house with a throwback-inspired set, invoking looks from her music videos for “Lose Control,”

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In Hong Kong, Life Goes On (Despite the Whiff of Tear Gas)

HONG KONG — Most of Hong Kong’s newspapers carried the same photo on their front pages Monday: a police officer in riot gear, his eyes wide, pointing a revolver at protesters. The photo, also beamed around the world on satellite television, captured a single, electrifying moment in months of demonstrations, which have often been described

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