Credit to Author: Sarah Posner| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:19:30 +0000
Starting with the rise of the Christian right during the Cold War, the movement’s leaders mythologized America as a “city on a hill”—a nation with a divine mission to be a beacon of freedom and democracy to the world. Is that dream now crumbling?
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Credit to Author: Emilie Friedlander| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:18:05 +0000
When it comes to the stories we share on the internet, the line between empirical truth and emotional truth can be extremely hard to parse.
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Credit to Author: David Uberti| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:16:49 +0000
Brooke Binkowski spends her days in search of the misinformation and propaganda that have infected digital media. We caught up with her to talk Facebook and fact-checking.
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Credit to Author: Elizabeth Moran| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:16:02 +0000
Elizabeth Moran uses photography and paranormal investigators to reckon with her family’s haunted history.
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Credit to Author: Gavin Haynes| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:14:09 +0000
On July 1, in a tiny English village, eight-year-old Sarah Payne was playing with her brothers and sister in a country lane. Then she wasn’t. The media panic that followed is a case study in how urban legends are born and spread.
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Credit to Author: D.W. Pasulka| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 18:02:52 +0000
According to research by psychologists, belief in nonhuman intelligence is increasing in unprecedented ways, and many contemporary technopreneurs are being inspired in their work by it.
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Credit to Author: Eda Yu| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 18:02:13 +0000
Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory.
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Credit to Author: Brittan Rosendahl| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 18:01:32 +0000
Brittan Rosendahl’s dizzying works reference magic, religion, and sarcasm.
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