"Walk My Walk" topped Billboard's country chart for digital song sales in November. The song opens with a deep, soulful hum, followed by a mellow, slightly twangy voice telling listeners that he's been…
The brand-new Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream is weirdly evasive about capitalism's messy entanglement with the state. One might have expected that topic to come up, given the museum's location:…
Mike Makowsky opens Death by Lightning, a four-part miniseries he wrote and produced, with a chilling line: "This is a true story about two men the world forgot. One was the 20th president of the United States. The other…
Polar War: Submarines, Spies, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic, by Kenneth R. Rosen, Simon & Schuster, 320 pages, $29 When he first started talking about it, President Donald Trump's desire to take over…
In the wake of explosive fraud allegations in Minnesota and, now, Washington State, the Trump administration is freezing child care payments to all states pending a review of recipient data by the Department of Health…
In the years since the pandemic, weightlifting has frequently been associated with right-wing and even neofascist politics. In the media, guys—and it's always guys—who lift are regularly portrayed as authoritarian thugs,…
Will a hyperadvanced AI be a danger to humanity? That's nothing compared to the threat posed by military contractors. That's the implicit conclusion of Tron: Ares, the third installment in the series that began with…
The Kennedy Center hosted director Jack O'Brien's production of The Sound of Music from September to October. O'Brien's rendition left little to criticize: stunning sets, apt casting, and exquisite vocal…
Netflix's Wayward follows Abbie and Leila, two best friends trying to escape Tall Pines Academy—a disciplinary boarding school in a small town—as well as Alex, a police officer who just moved to town with his wife. Abbie…
Project Mind Control tells the lurid tale of the CIA's attempts to discover the scientific principles that would allow people to control subjects' thoughts and actions. The author, University of Texas historian John…
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