Americans will soon be able to self-select which gender appears on their passports, and among the options will be a “gender marker for nonbinary, intersex, and gender nonconforming persons,” Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced on Wednesday. “We will be updating our procedures to allow applicants to self-select their gender …
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Rightly or wrongly, Pope Francis has long enjoyed the reputation as the “cool pope,” a view that has been bolstered by, among other things, his public statements in support of the theory of evolution and a 2014 profile in the pages of this magazine. A documentary released last fall even …
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Mary Steenburgen has been a Hollywood actress for close to five decades now, but younger audiences might know her best fromBook Club, the 2018 rom-com she starred in alongside fellow veteran actresses Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, and Candice Bergen. On Rolling Stone‘s The First Time, Steenburgen described how the shoot …
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When the world suddenly changed back in March due to COVID-19 — some have even been so bold as to say the world “stopped” — and governments, scientists, doctors, emergency workers, and everyday people banded together to combat the horrible spread of this latest virus, I also felt a dizzying …
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