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As Mad Men winds down to its final hours, Matthew Weiners aims loom just as cryptic as ever, made more so by the introduction of new characters and the resurfacing of long-forgotten ones. Its set off a spate of questions:How are all of these people going to factor into the finale? Is he just bringing

The Post's piece on Marine Maj. Douglas Alexander Zembiec, the "Lion of Fallujah," was an incredible, intimate, evocative and colorful portrait of a man whom many people will never know [" Marines' 'Lion of Fallujah' died while working for the CIA ," front page, July 16]. I am a liberal, bleeding-heart pacifist and don't have

Every Friday, national arts reporter Geoff Edgers hosts The Washington Posts first Instagram Live show from his barn in Concord, Mass. He has interviewed, among others, comedian Gilbert Gottfried, infectious-disease expert Anthony S. Fauci and journalist Katie Couric. Recently, Edgers chatted with chef, author and television host Andrew Zimmern. And he cooked his grandmas kielbasa

The wall dividing the United States and Mexico stands to prevent illegal immigration between the two countries, but it doesnt stop musicians from crossing art and politics. Photo from the Border Songs CD booklet, courtesy of Shawn Skabelund.

In the 1925 silent comedy Seven Chances, Buster Keatons character is thrown out of a theater, with his clothes torn and his straw hat shoved down his head, after strutting inside in pursuit of a performer with a beaming smile and shapely legs. Clearly, he had made a pass, and it was intercepted.