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That connection and dedication shows: The Way Back features the rawest and most natural performance Affleck has given in his career. He’s the worthy centerpiece of a small, character-focused drama—the sort of project that’s all too rare in Hollywood these days. Affleck plays Jack Cunningham, a high-school basketball phenomenon who …

A young Black man who was wrestled to the ground Wednesday night (March 4) by New York City police officers says he was pushed against a fence and threatened with a taser.  In a cellphone video taken of the incident that was posted to Twitter and went viral, police are …

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“When I started it, they all just called it that crap. Like, ‘Oh, they’re over there doing that crap.’ ” This nurse, whom I’ll call Jamie, was on the line from a Veterans Affairs medical center in the Northeast. She’d been struggling for a few minutes between the impulse to tout …

McCoy Tyner, a pianist who played with John Coltrane, passed away Friday (March 6) at his home in northern New Jersey. He was 81 and his death was confirmed by a nephew. Tyner was a member of Coltrane’s seminal 1960s quartet. His distinctive sound on acoustic piano was influential to …

Photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images) As of late, it feels as if states are making it harder and harder for people to exercise their right to vote. The state of Illinois, at least, seems to be doing quite the opposite. The Washington Post reports that the Cook County jail will …

Some 3.6 million Syrian refugees live in Turkey, having fled their homeland’s civil war in search of safety. Over the years, Turkey has mostly welcomed them with government-financed programs and a degree of freedom typically unavailable to refugees, many of whom are consigned to camps. As a result, Syrians can …

A manager at an Olive Garden in Evansville, Indiana has been fired for obliging a white customer who refused to be served by a Black server. The incident went viral after Maxwell Robbins, another patron in the restaurant, witnessed the exchange posted about it on Facebook: “A few white people …

Photo: Alfredo Estrella (Getty Images) The immigration policies executed by the Trump administration have been, to be succinct, fucked up. That’s not even just me saying that. The people who have to execute his policies are saying it too. The New York Times reports that a union of federal asylum …

David Plouffe got it very wrong in 2016. After confidently predicting Donald Trump’s defeat, the campaign manager credited with Barack Obama’s historic 2008 victory watched a reality-television star become commander in chief. Four years later, Plouffe says he rewatched that Election Night. Over and over. And after absorbing the lessons …