There’s a faith-based film from 2014 called Woodlawn. It’s at least partially a story about a football team in rural Alabama still rocking with the upheaval of the civil rights era — so much so that the team’s Black players all play defense while Woodlawn High’s white guys all play…

Until this weekend, I managed to avoid parodies of George Santos for over a month. I didn’t need them; with all due respect, you don’t, either. That’s not to say that the late-night takes are somehow harmful and bad —only that it’s nearly impossible to make the real-life event much…

We are surrounded, it is written, with so great a cloud of witnesses, the New Testament book of Hebrews’ shorthand for the reader’s righteous forbears. When the will of God came calling, they carried it out, even as the flawed human beings that they were — leading the people, adjudicating…

You could say that Kevin McCarthy wants to be loved. It’s impossible to hold this against him without context: We do all sorts of things in the pursuit of love, some of which take us out of the containers we once identified as ourselves. Love, in so many ways, puts…

2022 was, in many ways, a year about what didn’t happen: Russia didn’t overrun Ukraine during the vicious invasion that seized the world’s attention from the springtime on; instead, Vladimir Putin accidentally turned his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, into the voice of the free world (and the only person on…

This fall, I learned about an “if/then” code from an instructor I’ve almost certainly referenced on this website before. Basically, he explained, one of the most basic kinds of computer code instructs a machine to react to a certain event in a specific way every time that machine’s sensors encounter…

In January of 2014, Bill Simmons put out a statement. At the time, Simmons was in his last two years as editor-in-chief of Grantland, the vertical of ESPN.com that had hosted his content since 2011. A few days before, Grantland’s Caleb Hannan had published a piece about a magic putter…

It’s official: The Republican Party is out on the person of Donald Trump. For real, this time. Yes, really. Absolutely — and, no, this isn’t like 2016 at all. After Republicans, led by Trump’s own endorsements, fell short of their projected gains in the 2022 midterms, the vultures are officially…

This spring, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor had a stroke. Also this spring, the same guy — John Fetterman — won the Democratic Party’s nomination for his state’s Senate race. If you didn’t think these two facts would be joined at the hip this fall, you weren’t alone, since the majority of…