Sports No One Is Winning the YouTube TV Dispute With ESPN. It's Time for Both Sides To Call It Off. Plus: Betting scandals come to baseball, and happy Veterans Day Jason Russell | 11.11.2025 10:00 AM
Entertainment Review: KPop Demon Hunters Teaches Us That Harmony Thwarts Evil A girl group battles a demon boy band in the wildly popular Netflix musical. Jack Nicastro | 11.7.2025 6:30 AM
Entertainment Review: When the Government Sent a Photographer To Document Living Conditions in Coal Towns Russell Lee's 1946 photographs shows the squalor coal miners and their families lived in before mechanization. Eric Boehm | 11.7.2025 6:00 AM
Police Abuse How the Punisher, a Murderous Anti-Hero, Became the Mascot for Increasingly Militarized Police Forces “He is breaking the very laws…that cops are supposed to uphold.” Joe Lancaster | 11.2.2025 7:00 AM
Crossword Candid Candy: Puzzle #119 "Bird with a big, colorful beak" Stella Zawistowski | 10.31.2025 8:00 AM
Movies Review: Eddington Takes on the Chaotic 2020 Politics of COVID The first half of the film comes off as libertarian but then it takes a weird turn. Robby Soave | 10.31.2025 6:00 AM
Academia Review: This Cat Gamed the Academic Publishing System and Earned High Marks on Google Scholar Larry the cat's co-conspirators pulled a prank that highlighted a serious problem in scientific research. Ronald Bailey | 10.17.2025 6:00 AM
Entertainment Review: Lena Dunham's New Show Is a Rom-Com for the TikTok Era The main character in Netflix's Too Much suffers from a fixation with online therapy culture. Emma Camp | 10.10.2025 6:30 AM
Movies Review: Dracula: A Love Tale Casts the Title Character as a Trad Religious Hero Director Luc Besson delivers a conservative interpretation of Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel. Jack Nicastro | 10.10.2025 6:00 AM
Movies Review: A Godzilla Movie About Bureaucracy In Shin Godzilla, scientists must cut through red tape to save Tokyo. Eric Boehm | 10.3.2025 6:30 AM
Movies Review: Is Weapons a Metaphor for School Shootings? The new hit horror movie is really about adults using kids for their own ends. Peter Suderman | 10.3.2025 6:00 AM
Technology Review: In Defense of Spotify Liz Pelly's Mood Machine book bemoans the music giant but overlooks how useful it is for listeners. Brian Doherty | 9.26.2025 6:00 AM
First Amendment Trump's Vision of Broadcast Regulation Is a Threat to Conservatives History suggests that Republicans will regret letting the FCC police TV programming. Jacob Sullum | 9.24.2025 12:01 AM
FCC The FCC's Involvement in Canceling Jimmy Kimmel Was 'Unbelievably Dangerous,' Ted Cruz Says Rand Paul concurs that the threats preceding the comedian's suspension were "absolutely inappropriate" because the agency has "no business weighing in on this." Jacob Sullum | 9.21.2025 5:20 PM
Entertainment Review: A Documentary Portrait of Inmates Who Quilt Netflix's The Quilters goes inside a maximum security prison where men sew quilts for foster children. Fiona Harrigan | 9.19.2025 6:30 AM
First Amendment Brendan Carr Flagrantly Abused His Powers To Cancel Jimmy Kimmel "We can do this the easy way or the hard way," the FCC chairman said, threatening to punish broadcasters for airing the comedian's show. Jacob Sullum | 9.18.2025 2:25 PM
Television Desi Arnaz's Revolution Was Televised How a risk-taking immigrant helped invent the three-camera sitcom Steven Kurtz | 9.14.2025 6:00 AM
Culture Review: The Historical Art You've Probably Never Seen A newly renovated wing at the Met showcases culture and history from Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. Matthew Petti | 9.12.2025 6:30 AM
Entertainment Review: Murderbot Is Part Frankenstein's Monster and Part C-3PO The title character in this Apple TV+ series is both a menace and a friend. Peter Suderman | 9.12.2025 6:00 AM
Artificial Intelligence I'm a Gamer. The NO FAKES Act Could Get Me in Trouble. A bill meant to fight AI deepfakes could devastate creativity in games like Fallout: New Vegas, Skyrim, and Minecraft, where mods keep old titles alive. Sarah Montalbano | 9.6.2025 7:00 AM
Crossword Feeling Lucky and Free: Puzzle #111 "Immature insect form" Stella Zawistowski | 9.5.2025 8:00 AM
Entertainment Review: Ologies Podcast Explores Everything From Witches to Algae How Alie Ward's interviews with a wide range of experts subtly make the case for liberalism and pluralism. Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.5.2025 6:30 AM
Entertainment Review: Did We Really Need Another Squid Game? The third season of the Netflix series lacks the moral nuance that made the original so compelling. Bekah Congdon | 9.5.2025 6:00 AM
Social Media What If TikTok Therapists Are Making People Less Happy? Lena Dunham's new show is a send-up of internet therapy culture. Emma Camp | 8.22.2025 3:26 PM
Innovation Review: Detroit's Ford Rouge Factory Reveals Just How Far American Industry Has Come The factory has changed a lot, from making Model T parts to making Mustangs to assembling electric Ford F-150s. Jason Russell | 8.22.2025 6:00 AM
Video Games The Anti-Porn Crusade Comes for Online Games Activists pressure payment processors, who in turn pressure game marketplaces. The result? A whole lot of video games and visual novels are disappearing. Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.13.2025 12:01 PM
Crossword Remember, Remember: Puzzle #107 "Cheer for a flamenco dancer" Stella Zawistowski | 8.8.2025 8:00 AM
Crossword Revolving: Puzzle #106 "Taxation, according to Murray Rothbard" Stella Zawistowski | 8.1.2025 8:00 AM
time travel Review: What Would Happen If the Modern-Day British Government Discovered Time Travel? The Ministry of Time offers a world of romance, murder, blue sci-fi lasers, and lots of paperwork. Emma Camp | 8.1.2025 6:00 AM
Crossword Extreme Measures: Puzzle #105 "Idea that the 'far right' and the 'far left' are closer together than they think" Stella Zawistowski | 7.25.2025 8:00 AM
Travel Review: Denmark's Viking Ship Museum Offers a Glimpse Into Life at Sea On display are five real Viking ships, intentionally sunk in Roskilde Fjord around 1,000 years ago to form a defensive barrier. Stephanie Slade | 7.25.2025 6:00 AM
Music Streaming Music Isn't a Free Market. It's a Regulated Monopoly. Rock legend David Lowery draws on his decades in the music industry to explain how government-imposed licensing fees and price controls helped streaming platforms flourish while eroding artist rights and income. Nick Gillespie | 7.23.2025 11:00 AM
Movies Superman Is About the Anti-War Vibe Shift Supervillains used to be foreign enemies. Now the villain is a defense contractor who wants to start a regime change war. Matthew Petti | 7.18.2025 5:23 PM
Travel Review: The Endless Summer Chases the Perfect Surf Conditions Around the Globe A documentary from 1966 offers a taste of summer, no matter the season. Liz Wolfe | 7.11.2025 6:00 AM
Movies Jurassic World Rebirth Chases Summer Movie Nostalgia In this painfully mediocre Jurassic Park franchise placeholder, even the hypocrisy is nostalgic. Peter Suderman | 7.3.2025 1:40 PM
Crossword Pyramid of Greatness: Puzzle #101 "Indentured medieval worker" Stella Zawistowski | 6.27.2025 8:00 AM
Video Games Review: Avowed Is a Fantasy Game About the Benefits of Local Control The player encounters various governmental figures and debates about the rights of various human and not-so-human creatures Peter Suderman | 6.27.2025 6:00 AM
Crossword Classical Liberals: Puzzle #100 "Blacksmith's block" Stella Zawistowski | 6.20.2025 8:00 AM
Food Review: YouTuber Max Miller Is Recreating Historical Recipes From parmesan ice cream to pumpkin spice lasagna Matthew Petti | 6.13.2025 6:30 AM
Black Markets Review: Schedule I Is a Multiplayer Co-op Black Market Econ Simulator A spiritual successor to the Drug Wars game that proliferated on high school graphing calculators C.J. Ciaramella | 6.13.2025 6:00 AM
Media Criticism Roseanne Reconsidered? An interview with the controversial comedian. Robby Soave | 6.12.2025 2:28 PM
Social Media Review: There Are No Top-Down Solutions to the Problems Depicted in Adolescence The limited-run Netflix series is fueling a real-life push for the British government to protect kids from online dangers. Autumn Billings | 6.6.2025 6:00 AM
Entertainment Review: A Comic Book Villain Runs for Mayor of New York in the New Daredevil Series Daredevil's nemesis Kingpin runs up against local government bureaucracy. Joe Lancaster | 6.6.2025 5:00 AM
Media Criticism If Viewers Love PBS So Much, Let Them Pay for It A new study on the trustworthiness of PBS fails to persuade. Robby Soave | 6.5.2025 3:20 PM
Women Review: The Wild Adventures of Women in Anthropology Anthropology was once built around freewheeling interactions with alien peoples in far-flung lands. Matthew Petti | 5.30.2025 6:00 AM
Video Games Review: The Free Market Comes to The Sims 4 Even simulated entrepreneurs aren't free from the burdens of business registration fees. Autumn Billings | 5.23.2025 6:30 AM
