Folk Culture

Emilio Morenatti / APDiego Meneses, of Colombia, competes in the Men’s Javelin Throw F34 Final at the Stade de France...

Peter Pomerantsev, a contributor at The Atlantic and author of This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality,...

With a name that sounds like something a parent would slowly mouth to their infant, NaNoWriMo is an annual “challenge”...

If you’ve gone to a Democratic campaign rally recently, chances are you’ve heard a version of the following sentence: This...

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The wave comes, throat-high and hungry. The last thing I see before it sweeps me off the rock and into...

Americans are afflicted by an “epidemic of loneliness,” according to the surgeon general and dozens of researchers. The phrase conjures...

Everything Slow Horses does is intentional. The Apple TV+ series about the outcasts of British intelligence is almost too taut,...

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During a conversation onstage at a Moms for Liberty event last week, Donald Trump said something that made even me—a...