Culture

US athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics face uncomfortable political questions, revealing the impossible task of representing a nation they struggle to defend.

Gisèle Pelicot's memoir reveals how ordinary men can hide monstrous behavior. Her story challenges our assumptions about sexual predators and victim-blaming culture.

Trump's second term reveals a pattern of using tariffs, foreign policy, and emergency powers to create discretionary funding pools outside congressional oversight.

Iran's Islamic Republic has moved beyond crushing protesters to arresting internal reformist figures. What is the regime really afraid of?

Why our inability to concentrate isn't a personal failing but a design flaw in our digital devices and platforms, and what this means for our cognitive future.

While we panic about AI writing, we're missing the bigger question: What happens to human creativity and critical thinking when machines do our writing for us?

The Department of Justice has lost nearly 10,000 employees in one year, forcing officials to recruit lawyers through social media as politicization and understaffing plague the agency.

Despite preventing thousands of heart attacks annually, cholesterol-lowering statins face growing social media backlash based on debunked myths about weight gain and side effects.

A professor's journey from AI resistance to acceptance reveals what we're really losing—and gaining—when machines help us think.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest reveals the precise moment when power becomes insufficient to escape consequences. A case study in institutional expendability and the limits of privilege.

The US military is assembling its largest Middle East force in 20 years as diplomatic talks lag behind military preparations for potential strikes on Iran this weekend.

As the Sistine Chapel's Last Judgment undergoes restoration, discover the Renaissance master's audacious jokes and pagan references that scandalized the Vatican for centuries.