Snapshot · Empire: World History
Every Fourth of July for approximately three decades, Ken Burns has read the Declaration of Independence aloud to his daughters and, more recently, his grandchildren.
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Anita attempts a quickfire round on a man who works in 18-hour documentary series. Burns plays along. Best president: George Washington first, because 'we don't have a country without him,' then Abraham Lincoln. Best president America never had: Benjamin Franklin, whose 'extraordinary possibilities' Burns admires, and in a more contemporary sense, Hillary Clinton — a terrible campaigner and candidate, he says plainly, but potentially a very accomplished president. The film he most wants to make: Martin Luther King Jr. The family controls access to much of the archival material, understandably trying in death to control a man they could not control in life. But Burns has already shot 70 hours of interviews with civil rights movement foot soldiers, and a King project is actively in progress. If given a thousand years to live, he says, he would not run out of American history to document.
San Francisco's average rent rose 18% over the past two years to $3,728/month, surpassing New York City as the most expensive rental market in the country.
San Francisco's average monthly rent now stands at $3,728, surpassing New York City to become the most expensive rental city in the United States.
At a childhood sleepover, Bobby Lee's friends drew penises on his face and he walked 7 miles home on a dirt road before being picked up by Eric Purvis's mom.
In 1950, about 60% of the world lived in extreme poverty; today it's about 1 in 10, attributable to capitalist economic growth.
From 2021 to 2024, 6 million children fell below the poverty line in the US after the expanded child tax credit expired.
Private domestic infant and international adoptions typically cost $40,000 to $70,000, while foster care adoption is the most affordable route at $0 to $2,000.
Historically, only 40% of men have ever reproduced — Galloway uses this to argue that romantic success requires effort, not a hall pass.
Robby Hoffman is the 7th of 10 children raised in a Hasidic household in Montreal, where the family was poor and comedy was a survival mechanism.
Robby's Hasidic community had no concept of 'too soon' in comedy — if it was funny, you threw it, and if you bombed, your sibling told you immediately.
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