Whether it’s Poirot’s vanity or Nero Wolfe’s agoraphobia, detectives have always had their vices, writes Nick Hilton. But as ...

Imagine that imaginary friends were real. Now imagine that IF director John Krasinski and star Ryan Reynolds convinced A-list ...

TEL AVIV — Relations between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Joe Biden reached a new low this week over the Israel military’s entry into eastern Rafah. Many in Israel were shocked by ...

Louis Brandeis, John Dewey, Learned Hand, and Felix Frankfurter would play this role in the early life of the magazine, passing along avuncular suggestions. Mencken never intervened in the life of ...

As early as the 1940s, research was beginning to emerge linking smoking with cancer. So the tobacco companies hit back with their own research, not just disputing the health risks, but actively ...

Adrian Tan, the late president of the Law Society of Singapore, had a way with popular writing genres that few other Singaporean writers can lay claim to. A new posthumous collection of his online ...

Should a divorce get them removed from the family tree? By John Hodgman Josh writes: My wife, Karla, claims that the title of aunt or uncle can be revoked. I think that once the niece or nephew is ...

One of the oddest aspects of 2015's “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” is how badly Robert Durst wants to be known and understood. By the time he reached out to writer/director ...

Technological history may not repeat, but it occasionally rhymes. Last September, ChatGPT, the popular generative A.I. program made by OpenAI, released a voice mode that allowed users to talk to ...

There’s a paranoid sickness that unites far-left and far-right in the United States. Its latest victim, identified by city officials as Florida resident Max Azzarello, set himself ablaze in the ...

Blasted across the front page of the New York Daily News in 1928, it remains one of the most haunting photos of all time: Ruth Snyder in the electric chair, a black hood over her head as several ...

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