Culture

There is a meditative quality to both Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson‘s work that sucks you in. For Rogan, it is his voice — a soft, curious, always credulous murmur that lends itself to explaining complicated topics. Watching Rogan deconstruct a mixed martial arts fight can be a genuine pleasure …

What would’ve been Lauren Smith-Fields’ 24th birthday celebration was instead a day of protest to demand answers and justice in her mysterious death. Today, approximately 100 family, friends, and activists gathered together in front of the Bridgeport, Connecticut, police department to march to the Margaret E. Morton Government Center, where …

Governors and governmental departments are hurling blame in the case of Harmony Montgomery, the missing New Hampshire child whose mother told police she hadn’t seen her in over two years when she reported her disappearance in late 2021. Harmony was five years old in 2019, which is when her mother …

New York resident Ryan Huegerich is suing the company behind the EthereumMax (EMAX) cryptocurrency, as well as the celebrities who backed it, for pushing a “pump-and-dump scam,” according to a new class-action lawsuit in California Federal Court. In that, he says he’s acting on behalf of everyone who bought the …

Authorities in the Washington, D.C., area announced Friday that the bodies of four women found in Virginia are likely victims of the same suspect they have dubbed “the Shopping Cart Killer.” On Dec. 15, the remains of two women — including 29-year-old Cheyenne Brown, who went missing in late September …

The true crime podcast genre reached the point of parody this year, with Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building depicting obsessive listeners who bungle their way through an ill-advised amateur murder investigation. As demand for the genre continues to boom, it seems like every day brings a new “investigation” promising …

With the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus now detected in 24 countries including the United States, questions are mounting about its potential impact, including how — and whether — existing Covid-19 vaccines will hold up against this latest iteration of the virus. Though much is still unknown about the …

On the morning of Nov. 30, Robin Redding’s son Treshan, a senior at Oxford High School in Michigan, asked if he could stay home from school that day. Usually, Treshan goes to school with his cousins, but that morning, they weren’t answering their phones. “He felt that was kind of …

The estate of Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien successfully stopped a new cryptocurrency that tried to launch under the puntastic name, “J.R.R. Token.” The “J.R.R. Token” launched back in August with obvious the tagline, “The One Token That Rules Them All.” The coin’s creator, a Florida man named …

As news crews began to clear out of Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the weekend, so too did the demonstrators who had ardently shown support for Kyle Rittenhouse last week before jurors decided to acquit the 18-year-old of all charges. The few dozen protesters who remained — most of them from the …