In six parts, The American Revolution, directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt, plunges us into the momentous war that led to the nation’s founding.
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Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
16 June 2026
At times comical, each of these stories swerves and plunges deep into dark truths of human nature.
David Rubenstein, the son of a Baltimore postal worker, was frustrated in a Washington law firm when he was both inspired by a wildly successful leveraged buyout and unnerved by a book that claimed the odds of successfully starting a company plummets after 37.
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Diane Brady,
Fortune,
24 June 2026
People run for safety as a drone, probably downed by Russian air defenses, plummets into a building in a sprawling marketplace.
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