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Jad Abumrad's new podcast, "Fela Kuti: Fear No Man," shows how one musician created both a genre and a way of challenging those in power.

The gloomy arguments in favor of solar geoengineering are compelling; so are the even gloomier counter-arguments.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Artists and thinkers have long fixated on the notion of an ideal society--but these experiments, in fiction and in life, inevitably fall short. Why are we still drawn in by the possibility of perfection?

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

Featuring Walton Goggins's Weirdly Hot Jalapeño Tequila and Sydney Sweeney's Pure White Rum.

Brazilian footballer who won his first of three FIFA World Cups in 1958: four letters.

Tom Hanks plays a time-travelling tech titan, and Mark Strong and Lesley Manville star in a modern tragedy.

In recent years, severing ties with family members over political differences has become increasingly normalized. Is going "no contact" a necessary boundary, or a harmful overcorrection?

From the daily newsletter: remembering a trip to Mar-a-Lago.