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Backrooms brings liminal horror to the masses, and with it, a generation looking for a past that might not exist

Companies are now grappling with whether to raise prices at a time when consumers are already reeling from a prolonged period of inflation.

Hulu's continuation of The Handmaid's Tale justifies its existence by the end of season one.

Poet Gene Grabiner celebrates a moment when two giants of revolutionary politics met.

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."