America and Israel’s ongoing war against Iran has sunk the global economy so deeply in the mire that economists are now ...

Doublespeak that deflects responsibility can be hard to spot, but patterns of storytelling by our leaders in the second Trump administration make human suffering look inevitable or mask it altogether.

In a Truth Social post that used that phrase “fake news” three times, President Donald Trump said he was “proud to announce” ...

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee launched an investigation into Donald Trump Jr.’s relationship with a Russian oligarch who paid for much of Trump Jr.’s wedding earlier this year.

It’s unlikely that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson will ever get the “Master of the Senate” treatment, and the reason for ...

But it’s the posthumous myth enveloping the Dahlia, not a woman, that inspired Mena Suvari’s take in Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story” franchise and other made-up murder victims in other TV shows, ...

After every recent political tragedy, from shooting American citizens to killing Iranian schoolchildren, someone always says that: Somehow, it’s not who we really are. Seriously? The people running ...

In a 1998 concert review for The New York Times, writer Ann Powers opened with: “Don’t hate Duncan Sheik because he’s beautiful. He is trying very hard to distance himself from that fact.” And just as ...

The solution comes to Cartman in a dream, courtesy of Aunt Jemima: the food pyramid is upside down. He calls Washington. There are only minutes until dinnertime on the East Coast. Scientists flip the ...

I Met the Tradwife Who Thinks Women Shouldn’t Vote,” the Sept. 1 episode of the Zandland founder’s YouTube series “Human,” arrives at an inflection point for both documentaries and tradwives. In a ...

Donald Trump recently claimed that when he goes to international gatherings, all the leaders stand up. Supposedly, they do ...

Kash Patel wants to be the White House’s preeminent attack dog. But as usual, he can’t help but break through the fence and run into traffic. This time, his mistake was a very strange quasi-defense of ...