Author: Kim Willis / Source: USA TODAY It took a huge leap of faith for Neil Armstrong to become the first man to walk on the moon, as Ryan Gosling shows us in “First Man.” USA TODAY Astronaut Buzz Aldrin has waded into the flag flap surrounding “First Man,” Damien Chazelle’s new drama about the

Author: Ben Whitford / Source: Positive News The teen survivors of the Parkland shooting have injected American gun politics with fresh energy. Ben Whitford explores how they have channelled their pain and grief into the fight for change More than 200,000 people packed the streets of Washington

Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think A Defense Department project has developed some of the first tools able to detect when videos have been digitally manipulated—content often called deepfake videos. Deepfake videos often feature one person’s face convincingly merged with another. Other

Author: Michael Blackmon / Source: BuzzFeed After a brief hiatus, Stephen Colbert returned to The Late Show on Tuesday night, criticizing Florida lawmakers who he said “completely abdicated responsibility” after last week’s deadly school shooting in Parkland. Colbert said that while he was

Authored by James Traub via Foreign Policy, The United States of America Is Decadent and Depraved The problem isn’t Donald Trump – it’s the Donald Trump in all of us... In The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon luridly evokes the Rome of 408 A.D., when the armies