Folk Culture

Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield met during the first week of graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania in 1978....

As Hemingway once wrote of bankruptcy, the collapse of autocratic regimes tends to happen gradually and then suddenly—slowly, and then...

This was supposed to be the year that political reform took off. A nearly $100 million campaign gave voters in...

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This article was originally published by Knowable Magazine.On a warm summer morning in Ieper, Belgium, 66-year-old Sylvain Cuvelier steps into...

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScIDay 7 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a supernova seen thrice. NASA’s James Webb Space...

The children don’t look real. It’s because of what they’re wearing—it’s the color of their clothes. None of the T-shirts...

Will Pete Hegseth convince key Republican senators that he’s a changed man? Donald Trump is standing by his choice for...

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Critics have argued that President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter was political nepotism—bad for the country, selfish, the...