Mortal Kombat movie. Does it succeed? Not really. This sequel tries to approach everything more carefully as the plot follows ...

On a sweltering summer day in 2013, a single tweet from Tahrir Square sparked a global conversation. Armed with nothing but smartphones, Egyptian protesters captured the raw energy of a movement that ...

In June 2019, a group of Yellow Vests, the diverse protest movement that broke out a year earlier, and their families set to ...

And, at 85 years old, she still turns heads. Wonder Woman is more than a comic book heroine. As part of the DC Comics Trinity ...

I ambled up to the Mary Day like an old salt, as if I had shipped out on schooners like her from Valencia to Valparaiso. Actually, I didn’t amble. I positively swaggered down the long dock. The only ...

I worry about Hot Springs, Arkansas. My concern has less to do with its inherent attractions than with who is being attracted. Specifically, I'm afraid the attractees are old geezers like me—people ...

The literary reputations of many mid-20th century American male writers appear to be, perhaps inevitably, in decline. Among those are several who share the same first name—John O’Hara, John Barth, ...

Genre is an intuitive concept. Most often, when presented with a song, you would be able to identify the genre to which it applies. As intuitive humans, we are good at aligning similar things, but we ...

Springtime in Pennsylvania is peanut butter egg season. This year, some consumers may taste the eggs a bit more critically and scrutinize the ingredients and label more carefully. Reese’s, a Hershey ...

Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy train rides. I always have, and expect I always will. But my latest trip on the Amtrak Auto-Train with my wife tested that notion to the max. We were supposed to ride on ...

While it doesn’t have the most original premise, Heel, aka The Good Boy, goes a long way, thanks to its actors. It’s a thriller that takes a grounded approach to its story of a family keeping a ...

Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, not the president. But most modern presidents and their legal counsel have asserted that Article 2 of the Constitution ...