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The quiet drama 'Nomadland' makes a lot of sense for this strange Oscars year.

Highly processed are engineered in ways similar to how we create other addictive substances; they can trigger problematic behaviors like those with alcohol and cigarettes.

Raoul Peck’s four-part docuseries takes a scorching, brilliant ride through the history of white supremacy.

Responding to the shootings in Atlanta’s Gold Spa, poet Patricia Mona Eng uses online quotes of the shooter against the 911 recordings of the Asian woman calling for help.

A systemic look at the evolving intellectual career of New York Times economics writer and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman in his shift from herald of neoliberal globalism to an emphasis on class and the public policies that address social inequities.

The book provides an inside look at how the terms "genocide" and "crimes against humanity" entered worldwide discourse in the wake of the Nuremberg trials.

Minari is a gentle, universal story about a resilient South Korean family trying to make it in 1980s America. You should watch it.

Big Food’s embrace of analytics brings risks of privacy issues for customers, who may not always realize how much information they’re handing over.

With his HBO documentary series Q: Into the Storm, filmmaker Cullen Hoback manages to demystify QAnon, exposing the mechanisms that underpin the right-wing conspiracy theory

Martín Espada’s newest collection, Floaters, takes its title from the term used by some Border Patrol police to describe migrants drowned in the Rio Grande.