“The Odyssey” cast: Meet the star-studded ensemble of Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated journey to ancient Greece

Three years after Christopher Nolan broke box office records and took home Oscar gold with Oppenheimer, the king of IMAX ...

The Onion’s new parody of Alex Jones’ Infowars starts with $100,000 to Sandy Hook families

The Onion will this week debut a send-up under its own website with plans to give some of the revenue to families of the ...

America’s Most Enduring Belief Is Also One of Its Most Dangerous

How the simultaneous deaths of two Founding Fathers entrenched the idea that the United States was chosen by God ...
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies

Is this sentence in the Declaration of Independence really the greatest ever written?

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...
Council on Foreign Relations

The Pacificus-Helvidius Debate Between Alexander Hamilton and James Madison

Two men who were instrumental in the writing and ratification of the U.S. Constitution differed on how the document allocated ...
philadelphia

Untangling a Revolution: How Ken Burns and His Team Brought America’s Revolution to Life

Ken Burns’ The American Revolution on PBS reveals the human side of America’s founding — from Philadelphia to Valley Forge — in a story both messy and magnificent. Everyone thinks they know the story ...