What began as a personal conflict slowly grew into something far larger. We recount how whispers, assumptions, and half-truths spread until an entire town seemed to take sides. This video explores how ...

Anime like this teaches you that even the strangest or simplest stories can carry truth once you stop brushing them off.

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Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

First-person horror exploration game! You’ve just moved to a new rural town and you’ve been tasked with babysitting the ...

Bill Rice, " Man" (1979), oil on board (all images courtesy Donald Ryan Gallery) Since 2011, when I first reviewed Bill Rice’s gritty nighttime views of New York City’s Lower East Side, I have come to ...

Looking for a new sci-fi shooter to take a spin on? Sub-Species is an interesting mix of genres; here’s The Escapist’s first ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

Her lips aren’t sealed. Ashley Tisdale took shots at her former “toxic” mom group — which included Hilary Duff, Meghan Trainor and Mandy Moore — in a scathing essay for The Cut. The former Disney ...

Mr. Rhodes is a contributing Opinion writer. He was a deputy national security adviser under President Barack Obama. In the aftermath of America’s victory in the 1991 Persian Gulf war, President ...

Ask someone in the weight room to point to their trapezius muscle, or “traps” in gym-speak, and they’ll probably gesture toward the small mounds of muscle nestled in between their neck and shoulders.

Belfast, 1979. At the height of the Troubles, two off-duty British soldiers think they’ve hit it off with two local girls at a unionist pub on the city’s outskirts. But what begins as a night of ...