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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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Felicia says it was easier to tell his parents he was gay than to tell them he would be on a show called “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.”
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Besides his own apartment, Felicia’s favorite interior space in New York City is the Four Seasons Restaurant, which is of its moment, yet timelessly cool.
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Just because a room is eco-friendly doesn’t mean it has to look like it’s eco-friendly.
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Ultimately, the designer says he’s creating spaces for people to inhabit. “At the end of the day… you have to constantly be inspired.”
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Tacky is not the worst thing in the world—it’s better to have bad taste than to have no taste at all.
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A conversation with the interior designer.
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The theoretical physicist believes that gravity is an emergent phenomenon, not the elemental “force” that Newton and Einstein theorized it to be. He thinks it is the result of patterns […]
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The idea that there will be some sort of mutiny or resistance when “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is repealed is “ridiculous.”
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Some things need to remain classified, like the President’s travel schedule, the location of nuke sites, or the names of Afghan informants.
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There is a profound, troubling disconnect where we have essentially created a warrior class. That’s damaging to our social fabric and our nation. When you can send folks to war […]
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Our soldiers aren’t robots; they are tired and worn out, and when they return home, they are returning to record unemployment.
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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a signature wound of our current wars. It may have impacted hundreds of thousands of people who have cycled through Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Hollywood and the media portray veterans as either villains or victims, says the IAVA founder.
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We need to fight the stereotype that veterans are all ticking time bombs.
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The 2.2 million men and women who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11 are a heterogeneous bunch, from different backgrounds both economically and politically.
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A conversation with the Iraq war veteran and IAVA founder.
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Writing courses and MFA programs make it easy to talk about a story if it proceeds in a way that is demonstrably similar to stories past. This means the really […]
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“The unhappier parts of my career enabled me to say the more trenchant things,” says the novelist. But “if I’m not happy enough to finish the book … it doesn’t […]