Malta caught me off guard. I came, of course, expecting tales of the Knights of Malta (or Knights of St. John, as they’re officially known)—stone fortresses and crusader lore—and the soft lapping of ...

Annette Johnson thinks the travel industry is taking self-service too far. She's watched airlines drop their phone support and add fees for airport check-ins that use a human agent. Some air carriers ...

As for action, there is plenty. Too often, summer blockbusters forget that action sequences are a means to an end -- not the point. Gunn understands that good storytelling relies on a connection to ...

"Some people bring a sense of entitlement along with them on their vacations," explains Nick Leighton, host of the etiquette podcast "Were You Raised By Wolves?" "This can often be an attitude of, ...

The Bear is a show that demands patience from its audience. I would call it a slow burn, but that would imply there’s a clear vision for the future and payoffs that make the pace worth it. It’s more ...

There’s an interesting dissonance between changing times and values. Younger generations typically push the cultural envelope at first, then decry the generations that follow as they age. What remains ...

How do you imagine the unimaginable? How do you write about it? That’s the task investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen sets for herself in Nuclear War: A Scenario, her hypothetical account of nuclear ...

I was raised in a family of filmgoers. Most of my parents’ dates during their courtship included a visit to the cinema, and this love of films was also ingrained in me at an early age. But how do you ...

Movies that are direct follow-ups in a series of otherwise self-contained films take a risk. There’s the potential for bigger payoffs and bigger disappointments. Mission: Impossible - The Final ...

The ongoing war in Myanmar has endured for over 70 years, with the country's 135 ethnic minority groups bearing the brunt of military repression. This has resulted in the displacement of millions, ...

Many Americans live in a version of the world remarkably close to the one Michael Schudson pondered in 1995—because either they lack access to news or they choose to ignore journalism in favor of ...

They found that, as you might expect, journalists across all three countries had perceptions of public opinion across the issues that correlated with their own opinions on the issues. (It’s possible, ...