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Today is 4/20, the unofficial marijuana holiday when pot lovers around the world attend rallies, public smoke sessions, festivals, and other marijuana-related events as well as just smoke with friends. How are you celebrating?“Oh, I’m more…

Religious publication First Things announced on Monday that it does not plan to cower to the mob that tried to cancel a book promotion for “Feminism Against Progress” author Mary Harrington, who frequently tells the truth about biological…

This is a tale of two black people and one major city. Within just the last week, Walmart closed half its store locations in Chicago, and the city police department instituted new curfew and bag-check policies at public parks and beaches…

Netflix subscriptions. Marriage. Terms of service agreements. Text messages. Social media posts. Pregnancy. Amazon purchases. Aging. According to our consumerist social catechism, each of these actions is reversible. Click “cancel.” Get a…

Homeschooling rose to 1 in 10 American kids in 2021 due to lockdowns, and the number has remained high even as lockdowns abated. Most families who began homeschooling due to lockdowns say they don’t plan to go back. Despite the steady…

Spoilers. Nowadays, it seems like in order to create a successful horror movie that isn’t a sequel in a legacy franchise, filmmakers have to incorporate at least two of the following: gore, vulgarity, and demonic possession. The…

Does Generation Z take anything seriously? Earnestness is “cringe,” being in love makes one a “simp,” and ambition makes one a “try-hard.” There is a “deeper ideology lurking in the minds of younger millennials & Gen Z,” as Esmé…

CHICAGO—Admitting that the late nights in dark bars were finally catching up with him, aging local rock musician Jesse Thomas reported Thursday that it was time for him to grow up and get a real job as a jazz musician. “You get to a certain…

Did you notice how quickly the narrative changed after the Nashville shooting on March 27? Almost immediately after a woman who thought she was a man slaughtered innocent employees and students at a Christian day school, powerful…

While right-wingers were in a spitting rage on Twitter about Bud Light promoting its sponsorship with Dylan Mulvaney, the social media chimera, here’s what happened: Mulvaney continued making money and then partnered with Nike and Olay in…