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Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # ashley Ross ## ashley Ross ## ashley Ross *  Jun 26, 2017 ### [5 Things I Realized Re-reading Harry Potter as an Adult](https://time.com/4812027/harry-potter-20th-anniversary-rereading/) After 20 years, the books felt fresh and new and exciting [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Mar 16, 2017 ### [The Feminist Message of the New _Beauty and the Beast_ Has Always Been Part of the Story](https://time.com/4696792/beauty-beast-history-feminism/) The tale as old as time once resonated with French women who couldn’t choose their own husbands [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Nov 18, 2016 ### [What History Says About 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'](https://time.com/4575295/what-history-says-about-fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them/) One expert on the history of monsters sees J.K. Rowling returning to an ancient notion of what a "fa... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Oct 31, 2016 ### [How Harry Potter Fans See the Presidential Election](https://time.com/4551438/harry-potter-donald-trump-voldermort-hillary-clinton-hermione/) Trump is Voldemort and Clinton is Hermione *  Oct 7, 2016 ### [A Brief History of Divorce in America: From Legal Rarity to Dark Comedy](https://time.com/4521314/divorce-history-sarah-jessica-parker/) The legal concept of "irreconcilable differences" dates to 1969 [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Sep 16, 2016 ### [What You Need to Know About the History of America’s Prisoners of War](https://time.com/4488422/pow-mia-day-history/) This is how the treatment of POWs has changed over the course of American history [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Sep 9, 2016 ### [The Surprising Way a Supermarket Changed the World](https://time.com/4480303/supermarkets-history/) It’s been 100 years since Piggly Wiggly, America’s first supermarket, opened its doors [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Sep 8, 2016 ### [Fantasy Football Season Is Starting. Here's How the Phenomenon Began](https://time.com/4482137/fantasy-football-history/) The hugely popular fan phenomenon got its start in Oakland, Calif., in the early 1960s [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Aug 8, 2016 ### [The Couple That Changed Gymnastics: 3 Decades of Karolyi Highlights](https://time.com/4434463/history-bela-martha-karolyi/) Martha and Bela Karolyi trained and worked with 28 Olympians since training Nadia Comaneci leading u... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Jul 28, 2016 ### [Why This Is Harry Potter’s Most Important Birthday Yet](https://time.com/4413044/harry-potter-birthday-cursed-child/) The book is being released in an entirely new era of content consumption and communication [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Jun 17, 2016 ### [Father's Day Took Years to Catch On. Here's Why](https://time.com/4367990/fathers-day-history-origin/) Father's Day was created in 1910, but it didn't get official federal recognition until 1972 when Ric... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Jun 14, 2016 ### [The Surprising True History Behind Flag Day](https://time.com/4365243/what-is-flag-day/) The holiday is a product of three wars: Revolutionary, Civil and Great [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Jun 2, 2016 ### [Looking Back on Your Old Diary Is a Thing](https://time.com/4354975/revisit-old-diary/) What you should know before you revisit your past *  May 27, 2016 ### [What to Do If You Dislike Your Friend’s Significant Other](https://time.com/4322553/hate-friends-boyfriend-girlfriend/) When to say something and when to keep your feelings to yourself *  May 27, 2016 ### [How Memorial Day Became a 3-day Weekend](https://time.com/4346170/memorial-day-three-day-weekend/) “This loss of memory and shift into recreation and leisure is a trend in American history" [HISTORY](/section/history/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/","name":"ashley Ross"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/"},"name":"ashley Ross","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```