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Steven Soderbergh’s spy film Black Bag, currently in theaters, has come out just a few months after his ghost film...

On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump promised to cap credit card interest rates at 10 percent. But since his inauguration, the...

There are nearly half a million private citizens in Colombia — more than all the country’s soldiers and police officers...

Juliet Gray never thought her makeup could harm her. But after years of regularly applying powders, eye shadow, and blush,...

The work of sociologist Michael Burawoy, who was killed in a traffic accident on February 3, combined in equal measure...

Bernie Sanders is a big fan of citing troubling economic statistics. One of the figures that he features in his...

A woman’s face emerges from the many exposed layers of plaster. The cheeks have lost their glow. The crack that...

In 1987, a homeless woman named Joyce Brown was forcibly hospitalized by the City of New York. Brown had been...

“Years of silence lead to a minute of silence.” It was one of the most frequently shared phrases on social...

Severance is probably the best show on television. And I only say “probably” because I can’t possibly watch everything on...

As he watched the St Patrick’s day parade unfold in Springfield, Kent Brockman of The Simpsons posed an important question:...

Review of The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century by Owen Hatherley (Allen Lane, 2025)...