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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about video games, technology and pop culture. What is completely new, however, is the awesomely inspired setting: The ...

Art Deco became the defining style of the interwar years. But its bold glamour rested on a questionable patchwork of ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

James L. Fitzsimmons received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2002. He taught at a number of institutions before coming to Middlebury and has held writing fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks Research ...