• Anime didn’t make it into the Oscar nominations this year. Here’s why that doesn’t matter.

    Anime didn’t make it into the Oscar nominations this year. Here’s why that doesn’t matter.

    Feb 25, 2017 06:36 PM EDT

    ... Ghibli along with filmmakers Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki. They released their first film “Castle in the Sky” in 1986. The earliest commercial Japanese animation dates back to 1917, and since then its diverse art form and style has continued to spread internationally. Anime is often adapted from “manga,” a ...

  • 5 important stories that were lost in last week's news overload

    5 important stories that were lost in last week's news overload

    Feb 20, 2017 10:30 PM EDT

    ... the most striking, case of unfulfilled promises and abandonment." Olympic Park failed to attract any investors, meaning the city will now have to foot the bill to maintain it. Currently, the Times reported, the park is in shambles, as are many other structures built for the Games. And although city ...

  • The unique disadvantage older women face in the workforce

    The unique disadvantage older women face in the workforce

    Mar 25, 2016 06:56 PM EDT

    ... women. Economists Harry Farber and Til von Wachter found that college-educated women over 50 are much less likely to receive a callback after an interview for an administrative position than younger college-educated women. Sex discrimination is not news to anyone, but the combination of sexism and age discrimination ...

  • How to teach self-control and reduce economic inequality

    How to teach self-control and reduce economic inequality

    Oct 10, 2014 02:12 PM EDT

    ... which explains our emotional "hot" and "cool" systems, "So your kid failed the marshmallow test. Now what?", and part three, about overcoming our vulnerabilities, "How Bill Clinton can now resist donuts and other temptations." -- Simone Pathe, Making Sen$e WM: I think what is really very important to make clear is ...

  • Here's your guide to every major 2016 presidential contender

    Here's your guide to every major 2016 presidential contender

    Apr 07, 2014 09:11 PM EDT

    ... from airwaves for more than a year, has resumed frequent interviews, including TV blitz the morning after the State of the Union and a CNN interview aboard an Amtrak train. Even dished on his skin care routine and his wife's oddball pranks during an interview with Rachael Ray to ...

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    News Wrap: Three Americans Among Casualties of Algeria Hostage Stand-Off

    Jan 21, 2013 05:00 AM EDT

    ... outside the city. He played 22 years, helping the Cards win three World Series titles in the 1940s. He was widely regarded as one of game's greatest hitters ever. Stan Musial was 92 years old. Also Saturday, former Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver passed away during a Caribbean cruise ...

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    'Valuable' Libyan Defections Aid Coalition as CIA Assesses Rebels' Intentions

    Mar 31, 2011 10:43 PM EDT

    Jeffrey Brown discusses the U.S.'s role in Libya with two former intelligence officers.

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    New Bankruptcy Law

    Oct 17, 2005 04:00 AM EDT

    Two experts discuss the new, stricter requirements for filing for bankruptcy in America, which took effect Monday.

  • How the Panama Canal helped make the U.S. a world power

    How the Panama Canal helped make the U.S. a world power

    Aug 15, 2014 10:32 PM EDT

    At the time it was built, the canal was an engineering marvel, relying on a series of locks that lift ships – and their thousands of pounds of cargo – above mountains. But thousands of workers died during its construction, and its history has seen no shortage of controversy, including a contentious transference of authority...

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    Boehner: 'We're Nowhere' on Fiscal Cliff

    Dec 03, 2012 02:14 PM EDT

    House Speaker John Boehner. File photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images. With House Speaker John Boehner and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner both digging in their heels on the Sunday talk shows, there was no sign of give in the stalemate over the year-end fiscal cliff. "Right now, I would say we're nowhere, period. We're nowhere," Boehner...