Have we become a society where large numbers of people fear speaking up because of the potential consequences? Is that the America we want? My email over the past week has been heartbreaking. The ...

Sometimes when you first get to a restaurant for a meal it’s nice and quiet. It’s easy to talk to your friends. It’s relaxing. It’s peaceful. Then a few hours later you all of a sudden realize that ...

What is the lived experience of totalitarianism? We get a peek in Irish author Paul Lynch’s 2023 Booker-winning novel Prophet Song. Fear, helplessness, an overpowering grimness — a reader is ...

Over the Easter holiday, our family spent a handful of beautiful days soaking in the hubbub of eight busy kids between the ages of 5 months and 13 years. It was truly a blessing: The peals of laughter ...

"What's your problem?" "Solitude." This simple yet poetic exchange from Audrey Diwan’s harrowing new film, Happening, contains multitudes of meaning. What is seemingly a throwaway conversation that ...

Yet a culture of silence, stigma, and fear stops them from submitting complaints, BIRN has found, while many media outlets lack clear rules on how such abuse should be reported and dealt with. All the ...

In Joshua Oppenheimer’s searing new documentary, “The Look of Silence,” Adi Rukun, a 44-year-old Indonesian optician, watches a videotaped interview with two former death squad leaders who boastfully ...

Perhaps, like me, you instinctively reach for your phone. Standing in line to buy cupcakes this summer, I scrolled on my phone. Waiting for my dentist appointment several weeks later, I scrolled on my ...