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An internet urban legend, now a hit horror movie, shows the vast, meaningless maze behind modern life.

A Court ruled that a correlation between the rise in ultraprocessed foods and an increase in childhood diseases does not amount to causation. The dismissal is another court win for the packaged food industry.

The Republicans running Donald Trump’s Washington grew up on the rebellious culture of the 1990s — discarding its politics while keeping its defiance.

Poet Gene Grabiner reminds us that the past is not dead, it is not even past.

His new book, Communion, sketches out a redemption narrative that is jarringly at odds with his actions.

In 1976, the national narrative was reflected and refuted by its movies.

Every food has its own industry, each more desperate than the next to prove it is a superfood so you will buy it and not its competing foods.

Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Mike Pence … the heavyweight politicians stack up in this sincere biopic of the United States. It’s so pointedly wholesome it’s like drinking a kale smoothie on a wellness retreat

Poet Sean Mclain Brown offers us a disturbing scene from the Iraq War, what happens to the animals in the combat zone.

In a sweeping account of the nation’s anniversary milestones, Eddie Glaude Jr. shows how whitewashing and racial exclusion have shaped America’s self-image from 1826 to 2026.