To determine who was a national security threat, the government used overt racial profiling. Similar to today, when the U.S. government often misidentifies Latino Americans as noncitizens, a majority ...

After Zohran Mamdani cruised to victory in New York City’s mayoral election last November, Republican politicians and right-wing pundits rapidly coalesced around a shared narrative to make sense of ...

Every TV season is made up of a certain number of episodes, and each TV episode is made up of a certain number of scenes. The best of those scenes linger in the memory long after you’ve moved on to ...

A small South Carolina town committee refused to remove a Nativity scene from a market parking lot after the mayor ordered it taken down from public property. Around Thanksgiving, Kimberly Byrd, head ...

What happens when two combatants of a massive conflict are isolated from their reasons for fighting each other? The idea that soldiers on opposite sides could find common ground because of an abrupt ...

Award-winning actress and producer Funke Akindele’s latest film, “Behind The Scenes,” has made history as the biggest opening weekend of 2025, crossing over the N200 million mark in just one weekend.

Case in point: James Cameron’s Aliens took a sharp turn from Ridley Scott’s original film, changing the tone from a sci-fi/horror nightmare to an action-horror thrill ride. Cameron was clearly ...

It Ends With Us producer Jamey Heath spoke out about the birthing video mentioned by Blake Lively in her sexual harassment lawsuit, claiming the actress only saw “half a second” of it, Us Weekly can ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...

This story first appeared in Trying!, a thoughtful, funny, wide-ranging daily newsletter featuring essays from the mind of Matt Gross. You can sign up for them here. Those were simple aliens for ...