
Who Gets to Be Exceptional?
On January 4, Timothee Chalamet accepted the award for Best Actor at the 2026 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. Because Critics’ Choice winners often shape Oscar momentum, the ceremony plays a major role ...

On January 4, Timothee Chalamet accepted the award for Best Actor at the 2026 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. Because Critics’ Choice winners often shape Oscar momentum, the ceremony plays a major role ...

H.P. Lovecraft, widely regarded as one of the greatest horror writers of all time, once claimed that “the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is ...

On July 1st of this year, Zohran Mamdani emerged from the primary election as the Democratic nominee to become mayor of New York City — a massive upset win over Andrew Cuomo, former governor of the st...
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On September 25th, the White House released a National Security Presidential Memorandum aimed at countering the spread of political violence and domestic terrorism that has, in their words, “dramatica...
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On the 25th of September, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that in the second quarter of 2025 the projected annual gross domestic product (GDP, the value of all finished goods and services ...

A debate over the extent of youth participation in politics has existed at some level through generational shifts and ideological changes. But today, the argument that young people are apolitical, apa...

The state of these United States is grim. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have ravaged the country with illegal invasion practices, summarily executing two legal observers in Minnesota and ...

As both former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger played one of the most influential positions in US foreign policy during the Cold War. He is frequently credited with h...