Comics
Beat’s Bizarre Adventure: FINDING MY VOICE with art
With more people reading manga and Webtoons (aka vertical scroll comics) than ever before, Beat’s Bizarre Adventure gives three writers an opportunity each week to recommend some of their favorite books...
Comics
Recap: STRANGER THINGS 5’s “The Crawl”
A long time ago, on a website far away, I wrote a retrospective of the first three seasons of Stranger Things for the show’s fifth anniversary, and covered season four as...
Curiosities
Did Trump post ‘the KING decides’ what war crimes are? Here’s the truth
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A screenshot authentically shows that U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, "When I say something is LEGAL, it's LEGAL," and that "the KING decides" what constitutes a war crime.
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In December 2025, a purported screenshot (archived) circulated online...
Books
The Best Books of 2025, According to The Atlantic
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.The Atlantic‘s Best Books...
Movies
HBO’s “Heated Rivalry” is the Sexiest and Most Significant Queer Show of the Year | | Roger Ebert
From “Overcompensating” to “Boots,” this year has seen many queer television shows enter the cultural zeitgeist. Despite how good both of these shows are, they, like most queer shows of this decade, are unfortunately lacking the audaciousness found in...
Movies
Cinema Is My Church: Rian Johnson on “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” | | Roger Ebert
Though by no means a filmmaker with one interest, Rian Johnson has always had faith on his mind. The director of the films “Brick,” “The Brothers Bloom,” “Looper,” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” “Knives Out,” and “Glass Onion,” he’s...
Latest News
U.N. chief says 6 international peacekeepers killed in drone strike on a U.N. facility in Sudan
A drone strike hit a United Nations facility in war-torn Sudan on Saturday, killing six peacekeepers,...