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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.
Nolan Wells’s phone came back from Horn Island. Nolan did not. Newly disclosed forensic evidence reconstructs the device’s movements, identifies Snapchat messages that were later
Ms. Rachel is right about something many people have forgotten: Fred Rogers devoted five episodes of *Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood* to an arms race driven by
In 1994, as *Dookie* was turning Green Day into one of the biggest bands in America, promoters twice tried to remove openly gay punk band
Political violence rarely begins with violence. It begins much earlier, when moral injury, betrayal and unresolved grievance collide with the belief that every peaceful avenue
The Nolan Wells grand jury needed only probable cause and 12 votes to indict, yet all 23 jurors who heard the case reportedly returned a
Taylor Swift once said she needed to be on the “right side of history” and rejected warnings that political speech could cost her fans. Nearly
*Primetime* deliberately turns Chris Hansen into a disturbing, morally compromised protagonist. Some of that criticism has a real historical basis. But the film also makes
A conspiracy claim should not be accepted because an event has unanswered questions, or dismissed simply because it alleges secret coordination. Game theory offers a
Walmart really did collect life-insurance proceeds after hourly employees died. Corporate-owned life insurance still exists today, but what Congress changed, when employees must consent, and
The Academy of Natural Sciences museum is closing after nearly 200 years, but its scientific institution and 19 million-specimen collection are not. We traced the
