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There is a push on to make the wealthy pay more tax and some are now fleeing New York
Music producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector dies of Covid aged 81
‘Wall of Sound’ innovator had been convicted for 2003 murder of Hollywood actor Lana Clarkson
US on course for a less than revolutionary administration
Real winners from the age of divisive and partisan politics are those who hate it most
Chuck Yeager, first pilot to fly faster than sound, dies aged 97
‘Living to a ripe old age is not an end in itself. The trick is to enjoy the years’
The Real Right Stuff: ‘They were like The Beatles before The Beatles came to America’
A documentary companion piece to the Disney+ space drama captures the lives of of the lives of the first astronauts
Houston, we have a problem: the myths of Apollo 13
There was one thing Hollywood got right about the mission: the necessity of experts
RIP: Famous names we said goodbye to in 2018
From Dolores O’Riordan and Myrtle Allen to Stephen Hawking and Aretha Franklin
Anthony Bourdain: The sceptical outsider baffled by fame
Smart, thoughtful and articulate, Bourdain cast a cold an eye on celebrity culture, but he also had his demons
‘Bonfire of the Vanities’ author Tom Wolfe dies aged 88
Writer dies in Manhattan hospital after infection, his agent Lynn Nesbit confirms
Why the American ‘Dreamers’ programme needs to be saved
Daca has brought 800,000 undocumented who came to the US as children out of the shadows
‘I overstayed my US visa when it didn’t matter as much’
Marriage helped me stay. I was lucky, as recent arrests of undocumented immigrants show
10 books to read in your first semester
With the Leaving Cert results out this week, here’s a literary taster of what to expect at third level
Did Madonna, Bono and ‘radical chic’ cause a Pussy Riot split?
Agit-prop collective broken on the wheel of fawning Western media
Manil Suri wins Bad Sex in Fiction award for ‘quarks’ and ‘superheroes’ scene
Britain’s ‘Literary Review’ draws attention to ‘crude, badly written’ passages
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