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Essays and analysis on culture, media, belief, identity, institutions, ethics, social behavior, and the ideas people use to understand one another and public life.
The school-transgender debate contains a real curriculum controversy wrapped in a great deal of exaggeration. Some elementary schools explicitly teach gender identity, transgender and nonbinary
A viral Sarah Hurwitz clip, a Jewish critic’s response, and an argument about “Jewish supremacy” expose a difficult question: if major Jewish institutions strongly identify
A kiosk may call it a “tip,” but the screen does not prove the worker serving you receives it. Federal investigators have repeatedly found restaurants
The original viral “Cat in the Hat stalker” was not a real serial killer roaming neighborhoods. But the story has entered a second phase: police
On April 6, 2002, Tina Fey joked on SNL that Palestinians would excel at “Fear Factor.” The clip is real, the $25,000 Saddam Hussein payment
Charlie Kirk’s St. Michael necklace was reportedly removed during lifesaving efforts, later found inside the SUV that carried him to the hospital, and returned to
David Spevak says two men identified as IDF soldiers posed as Palestinian students from Gaza, described fabricated atrocities as their own, and tried to force
The “Japanese Missing Cat Method” tells owners to ask neighborhood cats to tell their missing cat to come home. There is no scientific proof that
You do not have to speak about every injustice to prove you are a good person. But 10 or 15 years from now, when today’s
Several anomalies surrounding Charlie Kirk, Rob McCoy and TPUSA Faith survive scrutiny—but not always in the form circulating online. We traced the Wikipedia edits, McCoy’s