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Edgar Wright’s dystopian satire, The Running Man, tries to play it safe and ends up pleasing no one.

To counter science denial, lead with empathy, communication experts advise.

Late-night hosts react to the congressional vote that overwhelmingly approved a bill forcing the justice department to release the Epstein files

West Coast poet Beau Beausoleil offers an apology to the many strangers he cannot save.

How dictators and Nazis have eluded the international justice system—with help from their friends.

Consuming food all by oneself is an anomaly in the history of human civilization, a deviation from millennia of tradition. And more and more Americans are doing it.

Poet Gene Grabiner offers an allegory of our demented leadership.

This book appeared in September. How the world around Mamdani has changed since then! This book lays out how it all happened, who was Zohran Mamdani, how he became an activist, how he was drawn to Bernie Sanders and DSA, how Zohran became Zohran...

This study of the Covid-19 pandemic looks for ways that public health officials and political figures can lessen the negative impacts of similar events in the future.

In Bugonia, Emma Stone plays a kidnapped pharmaceutical CEO trying to convince her deranged abductors that she’s not a sinister alien in disguise. As a portrait of our political impasse, it’s a shocking, wild ride with an ending you won’t see coming.