Folk Culture

Wikipedia’s “Timeline of the Far Future” is one of my favorite webpages from the internet’s pre-slop era. A Londoner named...

Many Americans are alarmed by eleventh-hour rule changes adopted by Georgia’s State Election Board—and rightly so. But many misunderstand where...

So many aspects of the trial of Dominique Pelicot and 50 other defendants in France over the past month have...

Donald Trump and his allies on the populist right believe they have a compelling argument for why the GOP is...

In an otherwise confident debate performance on Tuesday, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, J. D. Vance, conspicuously dodged questions from the...

Last year, in Texas, a deteriorating marriage became the testing ground for a novel legal strategy favored by some of...

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For the second time in less than half a year, Iran has hurled hundreds of missiles at Israel. Although Iran...

About half an hour into last night’s vice-presidential debate, the CBS anchor Margaret Brennan turned to Tim Walz and asked...

In the lead-up to last night’s vice-presidential debate between J. D. Vance and Tim Walz, CBS’s decision not to have...