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A new book makes the case for engaging with the anniversary on your own terms and taking your own meaning from it.

Boots Riley’s remarkably easy confidence and visual flair in I Love Boosters is a tonic in an era of boring CGI slop. He’s one of the most compelling filmmakers working today.

The health supplement spirulina is now a mainstream food dye but critics are pointing to contamination concerns. The FDA, based on a petition from industry, ruled that spirulina “certification was not necessary for the protection of public health.”

As its third season ends, Sam Levinson’s HBO show reflects the grim future that gen Z faces. Its rage-bait is precisely the point

Poet Esther Kamkar meditates on an exhibit of quilts made by enslaved women.

This book, argues reviewer Evans, "describes a number of attempts by ancient people to live outside of the hierarchies, polities and empires familiar from old textbooks."

The outspoken musician and film-maker talks I Love Boosters, his colorful follow-up to 2018 hit Sorry to Bother You, and the criticisms of his partnership with an Ellison

Scientists are exploring how farming waste could be used for fungal fermentation and turned into a high-protein food for humans.

Jane Fonda, Bruce Springsteen and Joe Biden are among the names paying tribute to host of cancelled late-night show

Poet Beau Beausoleil, in a moment of introspection, considers the necessity and the limits of activism.