Some Spanish audiences thought clever ads for the sci-fi blockbuster Independence Day were news reports of an actual alien ...

I n February 2016, after exchanging email pleasantries with the left-wing public intellectual Noam Chomsky and extending an ...

Moore’s work can be found in a number of museum collections across the country, including the Detroit Institute of Arts, ...

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The last time I wrote in this space was November of 2024. I wrote then about the demographic  that would decide the presidential election—white women—and they did what they’ve done  since 1968: the ...

So is Heathcliff white? By Victorian standards, he’s definitely not white — and likely by ours as well. Is Heathcliff Black?

Carter G. Woodson, the "father of Black history," founded the celebration now known as Black History Month in 1926. A ...

For “Mammoth,” a new show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, he takes up contentious issues of race and climate change ...

This post features biographies and notable quotes from oral history interviews with planetary geophysicist Lynnae Quick, ...

Good Sunday morning, and welcome back to “Brunch,” a pop-up newsletter about the 2026 Legislative Session and more. This is a super-sized, Super Bowl-themed edition of “Brunch.” The Super Bowl means a ...

The targeting of the ICC and the UN is part of US President Donald Trump’s hardball tactics in foreign policy. Read more at ...

“This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the ...