The 'silent auteur' tackled troubling social and economic issues in such films as 'Titicut Follies,' which exposed brutalities at a hospital for the criminally insane.

China expert Elizabeth Economy discusses Beijing’s strategy to expand its power in the new world order. Author Adam Higginbotham talks about his new book “Challenger” about the 1986 disaster.

Slayer terrified the PMRC, Janet Jackson seized control, and Genesis got weird on these albums that shaped a transformative year Beastie Boys in 1986. (Credit: Michel Delsol/Getty Images) From left: ...

Move over, thrash — these are the six best hair metal albums of 1986. As the Bay Area headbangers were catching fire and pioneering a subgenre based on full-speed-or-nothing brutality, a different ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The WNET Group, parent company of New York's flagship public television stations THIRTEEN and WLIW, announced today that President and CEO Neal Shapiro will ...

A news release said Shapiro reached his decision in consultation with the organization’s board of trustees and that he will remain as CEO until a successor is identified. After a new leader is ...

LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. — The parent company of New York’s two largest PBS Member stations — WNET-13 and WLIW-21 — has revealed that its President/CEO will retire from his role when his current ...

In 1986, Wilmington's Hoggard High School students could smoke on campus and parked at Long Leaf Mall. Teen social life often centered around Independence Mall's arcade and Wrightsville Beach. The ...

In the world of the long-running kids show Cyberchase, Motherboard, a sort of digital queen and literal technocrat, is the beneficent but impaired leader of all of cyberspace. She is—we are to ...