Emma Bowman

Are you sure you know what 'gaslighting' is?

Emma Bowman

Therapists say we're overusing the word. Here's what it actually means — and what the Ingrid Bergman film that helped birth the word can teach us about it.

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Investigators release a flurry of leads in the search for Nancy Guthrie

Alana Wise, Emma Bowman

Police briefly detained, then released, a person in relation to the kidnapping case of Nancy Guthrie on Tuesday night. Earlier, the FBI released surveillance camera footage showing a masked person outside Guthrie's home the morning she disappeared.

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The history behind the NYC subway station chosen for Mamdani's swearing-in

Emma Bowman

The city shut down the station in 1945 on New Year's Eve. Eighty years later, it's a symbolic venue choice for the incoming mayor's private swearing-in ceremony.

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2 killed and 9 injured in Brown University shooting, person of interest now in custody

Lydia Calitri, Emma Bowman, Luke Garrett

Authorities were searching for a suspect described as "a male dressed in black" who fled after the Saturday afternoon shooting, and now have a person of interest in custody.

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A guerrilla gardener installed a pop-up wetland in the LA River. Here's how — and why

Emma Bowman

Well-meaning city dwellers forgo permits and official procedure to rewild urban areas across the country. In downtown LA, artist Doug Rosenberg is trying to push the grassroots movement forward.

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3 takeaways from Saturday's No Kings nationwide protests

Alana Wise, Chandelis Duster, Emma Bowman

Organizers said some 2,600 protests were planned in the U.S. on Saturday. The protests were largely peaceful, as demonstrators united in their stated aim to safeguard the country's democratic values.

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A play about the revolt of human workers — not machines — gave us the word 'robot'

Emma Bowman

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New interpretations of the robot reflect a modernity once skewered by the writer.