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Playwrights and directors have a duty to guide audiences through the brave new technological world that is overturning many of the bedrock assumptions of humanism since the Renaissance.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025

Jonathan Adler, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, said the current court is overturning precedent and striking down legislation at a significantly slower rate than its post-war predecessors.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2023

The reward is overturning calls that are clearly wrong.

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2021

But a growing body of research is overturning assumptions about what early education can look like.

From Scientific American • Oct. 1, 2019

An unabashed cheerleader for Alabama who is comfortable in the spotlight, Bronner is overturning the image of the pension manager as passive investor--and not without controversy.

From Time Magazine Archive