A long-awaited Gaza hostage deal is set to free the last 20 captives, but questions remain: why did it take so long, and could thousands of lives have been saved with earlier action?
After being toppled or removed in 2020, many Christopher Columbus statues are being restored and relocated to museums, private clubs, and indoor displays—ushering in a new era of historical recontextualization.
Nobel Prize-winning writer Svetlana Alexievich is sounding the alarm on the resurgence of Soviet-style authoritarianism, which she calls the ‘Red man,’ in today’s Russia and Belarus.
Swedish criminal Clark Olofsson, whose 1973 bank heist gave rise to the term ‘Stockholm syndrome,’ has died at 78, reigniting questions about the legitimacy of the psychological concept.
A viral AI-generated video shows tech columnist Kevin Roose on a date with a robot, highlighting the rise of ‘AI slop’—cheap, realistic, and potentially dangerous synthetic content.