(RNS) — Timothy Snyder, a historian of the Holocaust and Eastern European tyranny, has a tip for dealing with authoritarianism: “Don’t obey in advance.” So, when the university that granted me my ...

Movies are the great escape. “Optimistic endings, passionate romances,” sings the incarcerated dreamer of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” who looks to old Hollywood movies as an oasis of beauty and faith.

The end of year recaps can be dizzying. But they’re also full of gold. By Sam Sifton I am the host of The Morning. The lists are coming. The lists are here. Spotify and Apple Music pushed out their ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

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Four-time F1 champion Max Verstappen went into the Qatar GP equal on points with Oscar Piastri and 24 points behind championship leader Lando Norris as McLaren faced a double disqualification at the ...

Oscar Piastri won Saturday's Sprint in Qatar with Norris in third ahead of Max Verstappen in fourth. Piastri trimmed Norris' title lead to 22 points and Verstappen is now 25 points back with just two ...

We are ONE. FREAKING. WEEK from real, actual football as the 20th season kickoffs with the Dallas Cowboys visiting the Philadelphia Eagles. I’ll be on the sideline for that game, beginning my fourth ...

What are they good for, anyway? By Melissa Kirsch What did you rank as your top movies of the 21st century? Did you include “La La Land,” which landed at No. 16 on our list of readers’ picks, despite ...