Instead of seeking out farms growing delicious fruits and vegetables, chefs look one step deeper into the food production system—to the plant breeders who provide farmers with seeds.
New analysis shows that the growth in the jail population is happening in unexpected places.
When U.S. politicians talk about Scandinavian-style social welfare, they fail to explain the most important aspect of such policies: selfishness. The choices Nordic countries have made have little to do with altruism or kinship. Rather, Nordic people have made their decisions out of self-interest. Nordic nations offer their citizens - all of their citizens, but especially the middle class - high-quality services that save people a lot of money, time, and trouble.
A new book about the abolitionist movement puts African Americans in the center of the history of our country's movement to end slavery.
There is something deeply shameful in the fact that even today a young Nina Simone would have a hard time being cast in her own biopic. The new film "Nina" proves that the world still isn’t ready to tell her story.
The specter of biological warfare, and the fate of Philip and Elizabeth’s daughter, plunge the FX spy drama deeper into darkness.
Last summer’s surprise hit returns to NBC, tackling infidelity and Bill Cosby in its first two episodes.
Conventional presentation aside, the sharply funny ABC sitcom explores darker family conflicts about religion and sexuality.
The sitcom aired a powerful episode centered entirely around a family discussion of race and the criminal-justice system—a too-rare event for network TV.
"Son of Saul has already won the Grand Prix at Cannes and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, and it’s a clear favorite at the Oscars. It is not—if my description has somehow failed to make clear—an easy film to watch. But it is a forceful and unsettling addition to the cinema of the Holocaust, a film that digs deeply into the gruesome workings of the death camps and ponders questions about duties to the living and duties to the dead." - Christopher Orr
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