Fatherhood looms large in the MAGA imagination: Warming up crowds at a rally last year for Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson...

One of the rarest and most exhilarating types of horror films is what I call the switch-flip, in which a...

Like land wars in Asia, trade wars with China are, generally speaking, unadvisable. But if, for whatever reason, you were...

On March 25, the veteran film producer Erika Dilday spoke at a documentary conference in Copenhagen, on a panel addressing...

Republicans are considering a tax hike on the wealthy, and Grover Norquist is beside himself. “It’s an incredibly destructive idea...

Black Mirror has never been subtle. Charlie Brooker’s famously bleak Netflix sci-fi series has skewered the role of technology in...

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Since early February, when Vice President J. D. Vance posted on X that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s...

The idioms of a language—its jokes, expressions, and well-worn wordplay—are windows into its speakers’ values and points of view. In...

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