Folk Culture

This article was originally published by Undark Magazine. In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a...

You’re in. You’ve been admitted. And soon your parents will drop you off at your new university. It’s thrilling. It’s...

In the spring of 2023, not long after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched his chaotic presidential campaign, I asked him...

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TThe leading third-party candidate for president—an environmental lawyer and activist, a son and nephew of legendary liberal Democratic politicians—just quit...

Palestinians have, since the start of Israeli retaliation for Hamas’s massacre on October 7 last year, been living through one...

Last week in North Carolina, Kamala Harris called for a new federal law to ban “price-gouging on food.” Such a...

Kamala Harris entered the presidential race with a dilemma: The economy is the most important issue for swing voters, but...

As Cory Booker gaveled out the third night of the Democratic National Convention, he told the delegates that he wanted...