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I've seen theory after theory about how he did it, or that he drove her to do it. Is it just the slant of my algorithm, or do you feel similarly?" This Reddit post summarizes the forensic fan fiction frenzy of the ongoing trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Mass

When I showed up at the Wilbur J. Cohen Building in Washington DC to see the murals by Ben Shahn and Seymour Fogel, I was told the building wasn't open to the public. It was September 2025 and I was commencing my research on New Deal art with a visit to t

In June, the Supreme Court struck down the Trump administration's attempt to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants and some temporary foreign visitors. But the administration has refused to accept defeat. Indeed, there is every

If you've read about Christianity's apparent revival, you have likely come across its familiar protagonist: the young male convert, often cast as the poster boy for Gen Z's crisis of meaning, or else a fervent culture warrior dreaming of a restored Christ

Communion: Finding My Way Back to FaithBy JD VanceHarper, 295 pages, $35In 2016, JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir of ascent from Appalachia to Yale Law, became the definitive professional-class explainer on Trumpism. This summer, Vance's follow-up mem

On May 5, 2026, in Gwangju, South Korea, a twenty-three-year-old man named Jang Yoon-gi stalked, sexually assaulted, and brutally murdered Lee Chae-won, a seventeen-year-old female high school student. During the subsequent investigation, police discovere

Williamson Street is the strangest street in Wisconsin. On the right side stands the Willy Street Co-op, the most expensive grocery store I have ever set foot in. A loaf of bread costs $11. They sell vegan crackers, gluten-free brownies, and a litany of h

As marijuana use surpasses alcohol and tobacco use for the first time, Republicans have delivered another win for the vice economy. Figures ranging from Donald Trump to Rand Paul successfully pushed to delay a ban on intoxicating hemp-derived products. Th

Stefan George is the most elusive figure in the literary history of Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany, a period that begins with Friedrich Nietzsche's excoriations of Judeo-Christian morality in the late 1880s and ends with the Nazi book burnings of 1933. Fro

How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford UniversityBy Theo BakerPenguin, 337 pages, $32Fraud is an ancient practice, but these days its prevalence and scale seems to be increasing. The latest evidence for this comes from How to Rule the Wo