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“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!”

Sinners is one of the most distinctive, confident mainstream films of the modern era.

"Pope Francis spoke plainly and with clarity about the climate crisis," said one environmental advocate.

Got Covid? Have You Tried Injecting Bleach? (2020), No Due Process for Armenians (1915), A Milestone for the Other-Abled (1920), A Dust Bowl Refugee Sings (1940), Harriet Tubman to the Rescue (1860), Don’t Mourn, Organize, Heart of Stone (2000)

The tariffs, the treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the DOGE moves—they’re all fundamentally about the same thing. It's time to shed flawed assumptions about who Trump is and make sense of what he is doing.

Food, especially seemingly modest ingredients, is a way to signify wealth and luxury tastes. Fashion and design are an extension of that. Wearing food as a design choice signals both that we have a palate for that product and that we can afford it.

Tech, AI or reindustrialization won't save us from global economic stagnation. Increased migration would help, as would deficit spending (particularly for public investment), and redistribution.

Whether in the past or present, imperialism that is reframed in patriotic language does not make it less brutal to those who lose their land, liberty, and lives—or have their identities folded into American conquest.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which began 82 years ago today, is now hailed as a bold act of Jewish resistance against the Nazis. But at the time, many Poles watched — or cheered — as the ghetto burned. The parallels with Gaza are hard to ignore.

Ripples in spacetime? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Harrison Greenbaum explore black hole collisions, quantum tricks, and how gravitational waves can help us uncover the early universe with MIT physicist and LIGO researcher Nergis Mavalvala.