"The Nevers" is just a steampunk "Buffy"
On his HBO show the "Buffy" creator shoves his Slayer archetype into a corset and thinks we'll bite. Some might!
Our last, best chance to save salmon
Atlantic salmon are perilously close to extinction in the United States
Why we're so tired after socializing now
After a year of social distancing, socializing is more exhausting than it used to be. Here's why
Sanders to Dems: Stop catering to GOP
"They live in their world, and their world will be trying to obstruct as much as possible" the Vermont Senator said
Ken Burns' vicious Hemingway smear
Ernest Hemingway was a lifelong anti-fascist persecuted by the FBI. New miniseries erases that history entirely
Trump rips McConnell: "Stone cold loser"
Trump reportedly slammed Mike Pence, Ben Sasse and Mitt Romney, but saved his biggest vitriol for McConnell
K-12 students regressed during lockdown
Researchers say students "made little or no progress while learning from home" — and many suffered "learning loss"
The ethically weak case against abortion
Many medical procedures are ethically similar to abortion — but without the outcry. Why?
Rand Paul wants two GOP senators ousted
"You got to send home the ones that lie to you" about not wanting "socialized medicine," the Kentucky Senator said
EPA to take up use of "forever" poisons
Trump-era EPA sat on proposed designation of PFAS as "hazardous substances"
Tired of true crime? Try these 5 docs
As we're more hopeful about the state of the world, here are some viewing choices that are a little less grim
Moving on from the war on terror?
Signs of hope from the Biden administration: Will America finally begin to end the war on terror?
Trump's Big Lie — and Hitler's
Hitler undermined democracy by lying about World War I; Trumpists want to do it by lying about the 2020 election
Texas AG pushing Biden to deport more
This is the latest in a series of direct legal challenges Paxton has brought against the Biden administration
The U.S. secret prison that housed Nazis
Prominent Nazis were interrogated after WWII in a former luxury resort in Bad Mondorf, a spa town in Luxembourg
How Trump keeps profiting off the GOP
Since 2016, the Republican Party has poured more than a million into Trump's private club in Florida
We moved in, then COVID hit home
We hadn't spent more than two weeks together before we went into our year of pandemic quarantine
Nuke the Senate filibuster, pass PRO Act
"In most states, it is easier to buy an AR-15 than it is to join a union"
Oakland’s Chicano cooking heritage
California chef Dominica Rice-Cisneros links Mexican-American generations
Enjoy a potato-tomato tart with Gouda
Layer potato slices and tomato slices into the baked tart crust. Sprinkle with the cheese
What's that honeycomb pasta on TikTok?
And is this tantalizing trending pasta preparation really the bee's knees?
The value of "The Man Who Sold His Skin"
Director Kaouther Ben Hania tells Salon word of mouth fueled the success of Tunisia's first Oscar-nominated film
Godzilla vs. Kong recalls colonial fears
Hollywood movies have historically represented the tropics as lush green coasts but lurking underneath is danger