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Abortion is the best f**king thing to happen to you. These words were uttered by the Black female protagonist of my play White Nights, Black Paradise , a Black feminist reimagining of Peoples Temple…

In the twentieth century the word “ cult ” (originally meaning “worship”) became a pejorative word that people apply to a group or movement that they do not like and perhaps fear. The word “cult”…

Sister Cindy, 40-year campus ministry veteran and now darling of ironic Gen Z TikTok , visited Butler University recently. Earlier in the day, she’d projected a 3:30 pm arrival, and within minutes of…

In a May 13 th article published in The Atlantic , Adrienne LaFrance offers her readers a deep dive into the QAnon movement. The article argues that when surveying QAnon, we’re not only examining a…

Rather than parse the definition of murder, or deconstruct the hearts of people long expecting to die, it seems most appropriate to conclude that murder and suicide occurred on that day.

Documentaries have always been artificial constructs blurring the line between fact and fiction, but new developments have changed the stakes.

A conversation with author Sikivu Hutchinson

Austin-based filmmaker David Jones is going to try.

Collect all the evidence that vaccines cause autism and endanger children, and you will have a very, very thin file. Collect all the evidence that there’s an appeal to believing that vaccines cause…

The debate continues to deepen over Graeme Wood’s Atlantic cover story on ISIS: Murtaza Hussain has noted how Wood ignores debates among Islamic intellectuals, Juan Cole argues for the fringe status…