Folk Culture

Eight years ago, the PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel was an outlier in liberal Silicon Valley for publicly supporting...

In the early 1960s, when my parents were in high school, they received free sampler packs of cigarettes on their...

Jack Guez / AFP / GettyThe Olympic judo mixed team final between France and Japan had come down to a...

As speculation over whom Kamala Harris will name as her running mate continues, Donald Trump is under fire this week...

This article was originally published by Knowable Magazine.In the summers of 2018 and 2019, the ecologist James Ryalls and his...

In February—two months after The Atlantic reported on a Hawaii murder case that sent an innocent man to prison for...

“Mr. Phillips?”“Yes. Speaking.”It was 7:30 on a Sunday morning. He was in his dressing gown. But he’d recognized the voice...

When I’m invited to a wedding, I try to say yes, even if the ceremony will be long and boring....

Midway through M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller, Trap, a young girl is chosen to dance onstage with her idol, a...

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