Review: Blind Plea Only Scratches the Surface of Plea Bargains
Host Liz Flock delivers a compelling narrative but misses chances to interrogate the justice system.
Host Liz Flock delivers a compelling narrative but misses chances to interrogate the justice system.
George Lucas divided his universe into light and dark. Dave Filoni is dissolving that worldview.
Despite Fincher's reputation as a gloom-monger, his movies are often quite bleakly funny, and his lonely, agitated male loser characters are frequently the targets of the jokes.
The author of The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America says colorblindness should remain our North Star during a live conversation with Nick Gillespie.
A Q&A with Coleman Hughes, author of The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America.
Fifth Circuit judges slap the ATF for making up illegal rules against homemade guns.
A new Friedman biography ably explores the economist's ideas but sidesteps the libertarian movement he was central to.
The once-subversive show now traffics in the clichés it used to mock so effectively.
Good intentions, bad results
In the director's own words, this is "a sequel to five different things."
The Sullivan Institute trapped members and broke up families.
A student’s overzealous school spirit shouldn't ruin his life.
How do you build a bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a workspace in a van?
"We don't quash this with censorship because that creates a worse underbelly," said Ramaswamy.
"Being a true free speech champion does require that you defend speech that even you disagree with," says libertarian Rikki Schlott.
The DAIRY PRIDE Act says it wants to protect consumers. In reality, it's trying to protect dairy farmers from economic competition.
The Mormon wing of the conservative #Resistance turned out to be just as fallible as the hawks and libertarians.
Sophia Coppola's superb drama tackles an age-gap romance with nuance.
A New York Times podcast tells a story about both the drug war and institutional incompetence.
In The Rest Is History, two historians strike a pleasing balance between fact-dense narratives and witty banter.
Free Agents author Kevin J. Mitchell makes a neuroscientific case against determinism.
The book blames foreign subversives for ideas long rooted in American life.
The comedian blames America's endless reams of regulatory red tape for slowing down new wind farms, housing, and public toilets.
The Riders Come Out at Night frames it as a hopeful sign that police reform is possible.
Gay and transgender people—both in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank—face an extraordinary level of persecution.
A tricky, excellent legal drama shows just how hard it can be to pin down the truth.
Narrator Peter Dinklage takes viewers through a step-by-step process for becoming the next Jim Jones.
“It’s really no surprise, the amount of energy vampires in politics," says a fictional candidate for Staten Island comptroller.
Over the last several years, they have worked nonstop to ease the tax burden of their high-income constituents.
“We've taught young people that any of their missteps or any of their heterodox opinions are grounds to tear them down. That's no way to grow up.”
“We've taught young people that any of their missteps or any of their heterodox opinions are grounds to tear them down. That's no way to grow up.”
Rikki Schlott and Greg Lukianoff discuss their new book, The Canceling of the American Mind.
Popular podcasts and shows portray crime as salacious and sexy, failing ordinary victims in the process.
Aside from narrowly defined exceptions, false speech is protected by the First Amendment.
Author Kevin J. Mitchell makes a neuroscientific case against determinism.
The union wants you to throw your Barbie costume in the trash, scab.
The limits of "we just don't believe you" as a news-consuming habit
A masterful epic from one of Hollywood's most important, most ambitious filmmakers.
A podcast about a man everyone already has an opinion about.
If multimillionaire José Alvarado can't figure out how to get his family here, what hope do other Venezuelan migrants have?
Plus: Jim Jordan has no friends, an "antisemitic Burning Man festival" at Penn, Staten Island secession, and more...
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