Even if we can’t have the Olympics, Thanksgiving dinner, or sex, the Oscars must go on.

How many angels can commit suicide on the head of a pin? Noam Chomsky and Margaret Atwood have some opinions on that.

Why do we talk about “reopening” the economy, as if it were a bodega or a Bennigan’s? Americans trip over political metaphors yet again.

The Democratic Party’s Situationist wing seizes power in a Zen koan coup d’etat.

It’s the holidays and everything is awful, but the story of PrEP tells us that it doesn’t have to be that way — sort of.

“There is war, but always elsewhere,” poet Jillian Weise says of reading The Economist. Americans have been watching […]

Butt implants, labor victories, and celibate mice make for a weird week.