The latest Phil-comics auction on eBay has more than its fair share of original comic strip art on offer this week, one item ...

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House Speaker Mike Johnson offered a baffling defense Wednesday for Donald Trump’s blatant corruption schemes, seeming to forget entirely about so-called congressional oversight.

Kristi Noem Refuses to Even Look at Photo of Abrego Garcia’s Tattoos Representative Eric Swalwell had the photoshopped image walked over to her.

Frank Zappa’s poster showing him as Mona Lisa is among the most iconic from the ’70s, and is subsequently among the most valuable, too. 14. 1970s Bottle of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La ...

THERE was no crystal ball, no religious apparitions or voices from the dead when George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, accurately depicted our present almost 70 years ago.

It was “1984” (a stage adaptation of the George Orwell novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four”), not “Ideal Situation.” Additionally, a picture caption misspelled the surname of the woman who ...

This delay meant that when the film finally arrived it was hot on the heels of a controversy surrounding the BBC ’s television adaptation of Orwell’s 1984. Featuring Peter Cushing as Winston Smith and ...

As a kind of prophetic poster child of dystopia – the term "Orwellian" literally refers to the totalitarian future he wrote of in his book "1984" – quotes on dystopian themes have often been ...

George Orwell’s ‘1984’ can teach us how to fight today’s totalitarians 75 years after he wrote it By . Daniel McCarthy. Published June 11, 2024, 7:13 p.m. ET.

A poster in the 1956 film version of Nineteen Eighty-Four (Picture: Alamy Stock Photo) The ubiquitous telescreens which play music and propaganda inside people’s homes, but also record every ...