The candidate’s reference to New York as “Hymietown” helped tank his 1984 presidential campaign and eroded a longstanding alliance. Credit...Paul Sakuma/Associated Press Supported by By Jonathan ...
In his 1984 speech at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, Mr. Jackson argued for a more diverse coalition for the party. By Jonathan Wolfe In 1984 in San Francisco, Jesse Jackson ...
A federal judge on Monday compared the Trump administration to George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth from 1984, quoting the fictional dystopian agency’s motto “Ignorance Is Strength” in her simmering ...
Informational panels on slavery returned to a popular historical museum in Philadelphia on Thursday, after a federal judge evoked the dystopian world of George Orwell’s novel “1984” to order the Trump ...
The suits were freaked out. With Super Bowl XVIII less than a week away, "1984," the game commercial for the brand-new Macintosh personal computer made absolutely no sense to them. Worse, there wasn't ...
In 1984, a shooting on a New York City subway thrust Bernie Goetz into the center of the national spotlight. After opening fire on four Black teenagers he said were trying to rob him, Goetz was hailed ...
Two new books trace an arc from the notorious Bernie Goetz case to the spread of vigilantism today. By Jennifer Szalai FEAR AND FURY: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth ...
It's the iconic Apple ad, the Ridley Scott-directed Macintosh spot that famously was shown first and once during the 1984 Super Bowl — except that's not quite true. You know it well — and if you don't ...
If you look at the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the 1960s and 1970s, you see a lot of men on the list. It’s not a bad thing necessarily—bands like The Beatles and Led Zeppelin are incredible. But in ...
After some forgiving and carefully selected early reviews, Wonder Woman 1984 quickly gained a reputation as something of a disaster. Despite the return of stars Gal Gadot and Chris Pine and director ...
George Orwell's 1984 remains a remarkably vigorous prism through which one views the difficulties of modern society. Each of these quotes reflects a key theme, from surveillance and propaganda to ...