Folk Culture

For more than two decades, through two wars and domestic upheaval, the idea that al-Qaeda acted alone on 9/11 has...

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The superhuman protagonist of The Crow, the comic-book movie that went on to become a cult hit after its release...

Of all the creatures stricken with this new and terrible H5N1 flu—the foxes, the bears, the eagles, ducks, chickens, and...

Updated at 3:45 p.m. ET on May 20, 2024One day the French writer Colombe Schneck, a total stranger, came to...

In a recent scene from HBO’s The Sympathizer, a communist spy whom we only know as the Captain (played by...

Joe Biden is, at the moment, losing his reelection campaign. And he is doing so while presiding over the strongest...

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A long-rumored deal to form a strategic partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia looks doomed to fail because...