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Three economists who have devoted their careers to studying poverty alleviation won the Nobel Prize in economics. How did their methods catch on?

This is not the first time the presence of American nuclear weapons in Turkey has been part of a crisis.

In 2003, Christine Rosen wrote that "[w]e may come to know too much about ourselves to truly live in freedom."

It's your computer.

Notes on the figure of the feline in horror.

"The best one can say of American art criticism is that its CLEVERNESS OFTEN CONCEALS ITS LACK OF PENETRATION," Alfred Stieglitz wrote.

From her nails painted glossy red to the tiara appearing on her forehead, if you time it out, the transformation in Sailor Moon lasts 40 seconds.

Meet John Doe, Frank Capra’s 1941 drama, carries forward the populist themes of his other movies, only with a much darker premise.

How the proliferation of pesticides like DDT almost undid the Peregrine falcon.