Last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new set of guidelines for doctors intended to reduce the “addiction risk” of prescription painkillers such as...
The 2016 presidential race in the United States has been a really bizarre sight, representing a larger social fracturing that can be felt in daily life in the United States. The fracturing is at its...
Conservative Christianity is another country, one whose citizens are often deeply suspicious of the world beyond its borders. Julie Rodgers’ article in Time last week, in which she shares the story...
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...
