Yet another smoking gun has been found in the origin of COVID-19, courtesy of newly leaked documents released by research group DRASTIC, or Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19. The documents include a March 2018 grant proposal that EcoHealth Alliance filed with the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to collaborate with the… Read More »
The new season of Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story is the latest in a series of fictional and documentary works of cultural criticism that seek to dig into the complicated misogyny of the ’90s and early ’00s. What was marketed as a time when women could “have it all” was actually thick with efforts to… Read More »
Season two of Outer Banks just released and you know what that means? More cliffhangers, mysteries, and murder. This Netflix drama focuses on a group of teenagers called “the Pogues” who are searching for a century-lost treasure. But they’re not the only ones on the small island looking for the gold. And the enemies they’re… Read More »
Waco, now streaming on Netflix, shows the real-life events that occurred in the spring of 1993. Many of the Branch Davidians, led by David Koresh, perished in the tragic fire. Here’s a look at the religious group and what’s happened since the siege. In 1993, a 51-day standoff between the Branch Davidians and the FBI/ATF… Read More »
In this April 11, 2018, file photo, a high school student uses a vaping device near a school campus. AP Photo | Steven Senne The furor over vaping reached a crescendo this week with two congressional hearings, hundreds of new cases of a mysterious lung disease, upheaval at e-cigarette maker Juul and canceled merger plans… Read More »
I cannot begin to count the number of misspellings that I have witnessed of my first name. The number of “As” and the pronunciation confuse both first-timers and my closest friends. Its spelling on my first elementary school report card set the rhythm for things to come, from high school diplomas to wedding tabletop cards.… Read More »