The United States is sifting through the fallout of last night's Super Tuesday primary — one of the biggest events in the 2016 election cycle, with a huge number of primaries that have the...
Ever since the Flint water crisis began, lead poisoning has been a top news story in national media. Most know the story of Flint's water crisis by now. Flint was assigned an emergency manager that...
As a piece of film, Deadpool represents a fascinating dichotomy. One entirely legitimate reading is that of a film by fifteen-year-olds, for fifteen-year-olds — filled with sex jokes, explosions,...
With the rise of adult colouring books — colouring books designed for adults, not the other kind of ‘adult’ — has come the rise of animated comedies also targeted at the adult market (think...
Star Wars, like most science fiction and fantasy epics, has had a bit of a gender problem. Like Lord of the Rings, it offers a deluge of multi-dimensional and varying male characters while only...
The X-Files is back, complete with spooky opening titles and snappy Mulder-Scully action. On Sunday night, the Internet went absolutely wild for it, even with American football and Downton Abbey to...
As moderate Republicans quietly moved to shift themselves away from Donald Trump, the current Republican frontrunner for the presidential nomination, one of the most respected publications in the...
On Sunday night, the first original PBS drama for broadcast in 10 years, Mercy Street, hit the airwaves, hoping to coast off Downton Abbey as a lead-in. 3.3 million people tuned in for the programme,...
Death is peculiar. It marks us all as guests and travelers on this planet, as guests of being – or what we know of being, anyway. Even if one believes in the permutation and transcendence of the...
Hillary Clinton, who came in to the 2016 presidential race so strong, is now fledging - dangerously close to being usurped by a resurgent Bernie Sanders. Clinton went through this before in 2008 and...