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Karla Murthy’s new documentary film about her immigrant father’s tumultuous journey up and back down the class ladder turns the mythology of the American dream on its head. It’s a story many native-born Americans will find strikingly familiar.

There is a growing body of research being dedicated to understanding the role of bitter and astringent compounds on cognition. The high sugars and processed food in the American diet today have a lot to do with how our palate has evolved.

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Drawing on her many years working in human rights and public health, poet Mary Ann Castle offers a portrait of a woman whose homelessness is a form of suffering but also an occasion of enlightenment.

This fascinating intellectual history of imagined paradises takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin.

Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day is corny and cluttered. But in these dark days, a classic Spielberg summer movie about aliens is just what the doctor ordered.

Calls for ambitious policy responses to climate and geopolitical risks in the current food system are growing louder. Experts agree it can’t just be technology that bolsters food security; governments need a new vision to support it.

Football’s governing body, FIFA, won’t even stand up for players, referees, and fans who are being harassed by the US authorities. It’s no surprise FIFA boss Gianni Infantino has also offered his services to help whitewash Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

On the hundredth birthday of Allen Ginsberg, poet William Berkowitz reminds us that before there was the poet who wrote HOWL, there was his father, Louis Ginsberg, the poet who wrote the poet who wrote HOWL.

A portrait of life in the Iranian capital through the months leading up to the war, and in the first weeks under the Israeli and U.S. "Operation Epic Fury".