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Ahead of the fifth anniversary of the insurrection, RNS spoke with Noelle Cook about her new book, ‘The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging.’ ...

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Wu designed and executed an experiment that questioned — and then disproved — the infallibility of parity. After freezing a ...

Director, writer and producer Barry Levinson won an Oscar for “Rain Man,” and his credits include such iconic films as “Diner ...

The revisionist non-specificity demonstrates zero interest in meeting The Moment, though plenty of other films released this ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

In the years before Ted Kaczynski's name became synonymous with his title as the "Unabomber," he was tapped for an intense psychological experiment that has left experts with questions regarding its ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...