History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
Trump’s Legal Strategy Has a Name
And it has been deployed by would-be autocrats around the world.
Maybe Star Wars Is Better Without Lightsabers
The TV series Andor achieved greatness by challenging the franchise’s good-and-evil dichotomy.
The Default-Parent Problem
Why do so many people assume that Mom knows what’s going on with the kids, and that Dad does not?
We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel
In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift
AI Is Not Your Friend
How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it
An Eerily Familiar 20th-Century Hoax
What happened when a mega-famous evangelist went missing?
Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?
An emerging critical consensus argues that we’ve entered a cultural dark age. I’m not so sure.
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