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There's a philosophical discussion considering the possibility that we are in a computer simulation, run by posthumans. Marcelo Gleiser asks: Why would an advanced species waste their time this way?

Family dynamics and political opinions can be hard to navigate during Thanksgiving. Advice columnist Mallory Ortberg shares her tips for how to avoid, diffuse, or otherwise deal with blowups.

"Fall is the annual middle finger this country gives Native Americans," says one member of the Oglala Lakota Nation.

There's an undeniable catharsis in seeing such a great writer, The New Yorker's Jia Tolentino, lucidly communicate the conditions of our most ludicrous forms of misery in her essay collection.

Even since he was a kid, Pattinson has been drawn to antihero characters. In his new film, he and costar Willem Dafoe play lighthouse keepers who get stranded by a bad storm in 1890s New England.

The White House adviser has read the racist 1973 book, according to leaked emails. For far-right activists, the work of fiction has helped to shape real ideology and anti-immigration stances.

Here & Now unpacks the significance of securing the black vote in the 2020 election.

Hagel voted to convict former President Bill Clinton in his impeachment trial in 1999.

Abandoning the Kurds is “opposite to the spirit of America," philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy says.

The Latin phrase has played a key role in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. But its meaning in that context is far removed from its original simplicity.