2023 was a banner year for debut albums. I’ve been grateful to discover so many new artists, all of them putting out introductory records that, in many ways, are just as good as what the seasoned vets ...

It's been a banner year for anime as its popularity has grown exponentially and American animation looks towards the trailblazing Japanese form to reshape how it tells stories. But while series like ...

Renewed debates are happening across the United States about the place of religion – especially Christianity – in public schools. An evenly divided Supreme Court recently upheld a ban on what would ...

From the earliest days of our Nation’s journey, America has been guided by the grace of Almighty God. Beginning with the opening prayer at the First Continental Congress in 1774, our faith has ...

Fewer than half of Americans (44%) say they pray each day. This is a substantial decline from the first Religious Landscape Study (RLS) conducted in 2007, when 58% said they prayed at least once a day ...

The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) approved 55 new drugs in 2023, as the small molecule and biologic pharmacopoeia continues to grow. This cohort is nearly 50% bigger than the ...

In 2023, Transparency International worked as a united, global force for change. We have one vision: a world in which government, business, civil society and the daily lives of people are free of ...

The season is over. A champion has been crowned. All that's left is to deliver a final, comprehensive ranking of every quarterback who started a game in 2023, judging them by the entire regular season ...

'Succession,' 'The Bear' and 'Beef' won the top awards for best drama series, best comedy series and best limited series, respectively. By Kimberly Nordyke Managing Editor, Digital Last Week Tonight ...

The U.S. labor market ended the year strong, creating more than 200,000 jobs in the last month of the year and nearly 2.7 million jobs in all of 2023, when seasonally adjusted. Consumer spending ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...