Among God’s faithful, a unified and triumphant cry rises up from the land. As the godly take their place in the pews, Bibles in hand, hearts in throats, there is bountiful rejoicing. Roe is defeated. Goodness has prevailed. The people of God have won for Him a great victory. That …
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Without enough food, there is only hunger, chaos, and violence. Russian President Vladimir Putin not only knows this better than anyone, he has also weaponized it. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he has deliberately disrupted the country’s wheat supply, triggering a global food crisis. Ukraine is the sixth-largest exporter …
Read More »Olivia Rodrigo Finds Her Teenage Dream at 'Sour' Tour Opener in Portland
Olivia Rodrigo has two Number One singles, a three-times platinum debut album and, as of Sunday, three shiny new Grammy Awards. On a chilly Tuesday in Portland, she finally launched her first-ever tour. It’s the type of rite of passage that would be a massive deal if Rodrigo hadn’t just …
Read More »Sean Paul Breaks Down His Iconic Track, 'Temperature'
In the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s The Breakdown, Sean Paul talks all things ‘Temperature.’ Paul remembers winning an American Music Award for the track, filming the music video in Toronto and recording the one lyric that everyone gets wrong.
Read More »A Dead-Name Passport and 16,500 Followers: How Zi Faámelu Escaped Ukraine
Zi Faámelu was getting desperate. It was five days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, five days since President Volodymyr Zelensky had declared martial law, and the 31-year-old musician, artist, and Instagram influencer knew she had to get out of Kyiv —and fast. She’d been trapped in her apartment, listening to …
Read More »'The Batman': The Dark Knight Returns, More Moody, Emo, and Enraged Than Ever
The dude’s scary-looking. You have to give him that. And when he clomps out of the shadows of a subway station where a hate crime is in progress, the guy with the cape and the cowl cuts an incredibly intimidating figure. Why the gang members in garish, smeared face paint …
Read More »'They Let Me Do Whatever I Want': James Gunn on the 'Peacemaker' Finale
This post contains full spoilers for Season One of Peacemaker, the finale of which is now streaming on HBO Max. So what did we learn from the Peacemaker finale, kids? Well, we learned that a human torpedo is ultimately more powerful than a kaiju that provides milk for a race …
Read More »Too Much Vino and Project Veritas: My Extremely Weird Evening with James O'Keefe
MIAMI — The strobes are pulsing. The fog machines are pumping. Three professional dancers wearing haute-couture costumes that appear to be made of newsprint contort themselves on stage to the all-encompassing roar of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance. Their dance partners, dressed in blue windbreakers and FBI caps, run their hands …
Read More »Goodbye, Golden Girl: How Betty White Conquered TV Over Six Decades
“You know, being together every week is getting to be a very, very nice habit. I hope you’ll keep it up, will ya?” https://youtu.be/gjkIo4WTMBo?t=1483 This was Betty White‘s line at the end of each episode of her very first sitcom, Life with Elizabeth, in which she and Del Moore played …
Read More »How the U.S. Shit the Bed on Tracking New Strains of Covid-19
The coronavirus pandemic is entering its third year, and the United States still isn’t doing enough to track the virus. It’s not just a testing shortfall. The U.S. government is falling short on “genomic surveillance” — that is, sequencing enough tests in the right places at the right times in …
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