The John Birch Society

A little over a decade ago, we went to interview a woman at her small one-bedroom apartment in a sprawling complex in the Bronx. She was living a quiet and somewhat anonymous life. But many years earlier, she had done something remarkable.The woman’s name was Claudette Colvin. In ...  Show more

Looking for love is an art, not a science. People have been trying to crack the code, with mixed success, for a long time. This week we're going back to the 1960s, when a couple Harvard students had an idea.Businesses had started using a new technology called the computer to proc ...  Show more

We’re ashamed to say that Barry Keoghan’s latest message to Sabrina Carpenter is equal parts embarrassing and hot. And just when you thought the Blake Lively backlash had started to blow over, her family has now shared an intriguing message about ‘the truth coming out’. Plus, it ...  Show more

As J.P. Morgan's personal librarian, entrusted with building his collection, Belle da Costa Greene could ‘spend more money in an afternoon than any other young woman of 26’, as the New York Times put it in 1912. In the latest LRB, Francesca Wade reviews a new biography of Greene ...  Show more

Subscribe to Mamamia This week, a deadly air strike in Rafah in southern Gaza killed at least 45 Palestinians and wounded dozens of others. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has referred to what happened as a “tragic mishap”, and yet, emerging reports indicate that such a ...  Show more

Plus, who gets a quinceañera?  

On Today’s Episode:

What We Know About the Proposed Gaza Cease-Fire Agreement