Thompson's notorious drug habits coupled with his lack of focus prevented him from publishing many great books

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Universal nixes the "Pan's Labyrinth" director's mega-budget Lovecraft adaptation about monsters in Antarctica

National Council of Churches said Kavanaugh had “neither the temperament nor the character” for the Supreme Court

The MPAA backs down and grants the documentary a PG-13 -- but that doesn't mean the public has won

Ruben Fleischer's Sony tentpole is dividing critics online, with some bashing the movie as a "complete failure"

Nearly one of every four people in the US is religiously unaffiliated

He's getting there, sort of

Syria's past may explain why the country has fallen into civil war

Did federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania target a state official because he's a Democrat?

California has likely survived this year's fire season. But across the West, not nearly enough is being done

Volcanic activity and climate change may have played a bigger role in dinosaur extinction than previously thought

The president has spent the week attacking Elijah Cummings over poverty in the majority-black city of Baltimore

Before it became a pennant for right-wing backlash, the Confederate flag was a symbol of American imperialism

Of course we kept the lights on! That misguided monolith gave us no incentive not to.