Culture

The UK just banned tobacco sales to anyone born after 2009, forever. It's framed as a public health win. But what happens when good intentions collide with bedrock liberties?

TMZ just opened a DC bureau. The story of why that matters starts in 1987, when reporters hid in bushes outside Gary Hart's house and changed American politics forever.

VCs are handing millions to 18-year-olds before they have a single idea. Inside Stanford's shadow ecosystem—where innovation and fraud grow side by side.

Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and a wave of MAGA media figures are distancing themselves from Trump. But when pundits who knew better stay silent for years, is an apology accountability—or just reputation management?

An animator paints an Olympic swimmer's return after surviving the Holocaust—one hand-drawn frame at a time. What does this tell us about how we choose to remember?

Over 1,100 Afghan refugees who aided US forces now face a grim choice between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. What does this reveal about America's commitments?

Peterson Institute's Adam Posen diagnoses the global economy amid the Iran war and Trump's tariffs—and explains why America's shift from global guarantor to unpredictable power may cost everyone.

Declassified Stasi files reveal how East Germany and the Soviet KGB systematically deceived their own people after Chernobyl—and how that deception helped bring down the communist bloc.

Seagrass vanished from Florida's Mosquito Lagoon for over a decade. Then two back-to-back hurricanes hit — and months later, it came roaring back. Scientists used AI and satellites to track what happened.

Decades after Chernobyl and Fukushima, scientists understand far more about how radioactive materials move, spread, and fade. The science challenges what most people believe.

Trump is attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner for the first time as president — the same press he's called 'enemies of the people' for a decade. What does that tell us about power, media, and performance?

The Trump administration has launched a tariff refund portal after the Supreme Court struck down key tariffs. Businesses can apply. Consumers who paid higher prices cannot.