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Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp can teach Jason Aldean a thing or two about small towns

David Masciotra
It is not only easy to find better politics in small towns, but also better music than Billboard's No. 2 song

Did I just become a citizen of a country that doesn’t want me?

Lise Ragbir
The Supreme Court had just struck down affirmative action. The man said, "Can you please raise your right hand?"

The secret “Barbie” message everyone can get behind is that Allan is amazing. He is also like us

Melanie McFarland
Summer 2023 is a "Barbie" world. But it wouldn't mean nothing, and we mean nothing, without Ken's buddy Allan

How Russian colonialism took the Western anti-imperialist Left for a ride

Alaric DeArment
Blindness to Russian colonialism distorts Westerners’ view of the Ukraine war

Voodoo Doughnut plans French Quarter location and New Orleans’ Voodoo community isn’t thrilled

Kelly McClure
Practitioners and preservationists worry that the Portland-based company "bastardizes" local religion and culture

Dear Ron DeSantis, slavery was not a job skills program

Chauncey DeVega
A losing Republican campaign finds a winning issue: whitewashing the enslavement of Black Americans

A new MCU looms: “Barbie” unleashes the overkill that is the Mattel Cinematic Universe

Nardos Haile
The toy company is copying the Marvel blueprint with UNO, Hot Wheels, Barney and more – and we're already tired

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” shows how war muddles the moral compass of two of its crew

Melanie McFarland
In "Under the Cloak of War" an old Klingon foe visits the Enterprise as an ally. But for some, the war never ended

The obesity epidemic is fueled by biology, not lack of willpower

Megha Poddar, Sean Wharton
"Mountains of calorie-rich (and often nutritionally poor) food and . . . sugary beverages are readily available"

The gospel according to Sinéad O’Connor: She was right all along

Amanda Marcotte
The late singer's legendary "SNL" moment outraged the mainstream — and was a massive breakthrough for '90s feminism

Jason Aldean’s controversial “Small Town” video reportedly edited out Black Lives Matter references

Joy Saha
The edited video is now six seconds shorter than the original, which was posted nearly two weeks ago

From “Only Murders” to “Sex Lives,” disability onscreen is improving but “still not enough”

Gary M. Kramer
Experts discuss the ongoing need for more thoughtful representations of disabilty in front of and behind the camera

DOJ sues Greg Abbott over “barbaric” Rio Grande buoy barrier

Brett Wilkins
Rep. Joaquin Castro called the buoys state-sanctioned "drowning devices"

“It’s a movie about a doll!” : “The View” mocks right-wing “Barbie” haters who feel “emasculated”

Nardos Haile
"I love my Barbie," Whoopi Goldberg said as she displayed her boots with Barbie heads embedded in the platform heel

Gotta get back in time: The current explosion of time travel novels goes beyond sci-fi and fantasy

Nancy McCabe
If something about how we've been experiencing time feels messed up to you, you're not alone

The “Barbie” backlash isn’t just cynical: The GOP is abusing its own supporters

Amanda Marcotte
Relentless culture war is making Republican voters increasingly alienated — like members of a fading cult

Researchers find evidence of a 2,000-year-old curry, the oldest ever found in Southeast Asia

Weiwei Wang, Hsiao-chun Hung
"We found eight unique spices, originally from different sources, which were likely used for making curry"

We did Barbenheimer, the “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” double feature. You should too

Melanie McFarland
It's the closest any of us may come to passing through a black hole and emerging into a cheerier existence

Live long and flounder: An aging expert on the looming crisis of our longer lifespans

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A new book, "The Measure of Our Age," explores the growing problem of our graying nation

How to have better orgasms, according to science

Rae Hodge
Ladies and gentle-femmes, welcome to Pleasuredome

The migrant boat disaster and America’s endless wars: Why we missed the real story

Andrea Mazzarino
Hundreds died in the Mediterranean while we were focused on that submersible. Looking the other way was a choice

How feminists are catching up to Barbie: She’s everything – and has always been subversive

Susan Shapiro
Beauty standards aside, the doll has been a wildly progressive lifestyle mentor ever since she won us over in 1959

First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don’t learn from history

William Lempert, Kim TallBear, David Delgado Shorter
A public ET message could initiate cascading events, including military actions to corporate resource mining

It’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” but for QAnon: Film spreading child trafficking hysteria is making bank

Melanie McFarland
God's children may not be for sale, but box-office hit "Sound of Freedom" is making a run on the public's credulity
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