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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.

People who are just dumped through the border gate find themselves in cities like Tijuana. Families get meals at the food distribution sites because they don’t have enough money to eat.

It takes some chutzpah to make television like this. Better Call Saul star Rhea Seehorn is the only US citizen immune from an alien virus that makes everyone in the world supremely happy – and it’s a bleak, blackly comic watch

Songwriter Billy Joel takes us to the scene of the crime, an economic crime perpetrated on the people of Allentown, PA.

Andrée Blouin was a significant figure in the early 1960s African liberation struggles. She is featured in Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, the 2024 documentary film about the events leading to Patrice Lumumba's assassination.

A combination of the breakdown of the Hollywood studio system, the decline of censorship, and the rise of wildly — and luridly — creative filmmakers across the world looking to cash in on sex and violence made 1960 the year of the modern horror film.

A new spot on the Lower East Side is betting that great food can be served with dignity, minus the profit motive. Community Kitchen, founded by author Mark Bittman, makes high-quality, locally sourced food with sliding-scale pricing.

Iraqi American poet Dunya Mikhail offers a bleak assessment of American involvement in the Middle East.

A new book, published just before the ceasefire deal, describes in granular detail the conditions for dismantling apartheid in Israel-Palestine.