Marvel Comics is gearing up to introduce one of the darkest Alien comics ever published. Dubbed Alien: King Killer, this new ...

On Monday night, someone placed a peculiar bet on the prediction market Kalshi. At 7:45 p.m. eastern time, a single trader ...

You knew it years ago. When you were little and people asked you what you wanted to do when you grew up, the answer was obvious: you had a dream and an idea. Sure, other interests caught your eye once ...

“Rebecca Newberger Goldstein isn’t the first philosopher to argue that we are driven by the quest to justify our existence,” said John Kaag in The Atlantic. But in her stirring new book, the ...

In the book world, Colleen Hoover’s about as polarizing as an author can get. Some readers laud her as a literary powerhouse, a mainstay of the romance genre. Others consider her books — and her ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Although Marina Sirtis didn’t wear any prosthetic space alien makeup in Star Trek: The Next Generation, any of the feature films, or Picard, the truth is, like Spock before her, the character of ...

The headquarters of the Federal Security Service, the agency that succeeded the KGB, is in Moscow, in front of Lubyanka Square. Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images/File By Malcolm Forbes, Contributor ...

Naturally, there aren’t quite as many cameos as you would get if Starfleet Academy was set a few centuries earlier; don’t expect Captain Picard cameos (although there’ll certainly be a lot of Easter ...

C. Thi Nguyen loves games, said Dan Piepenbring in Harper’s. In his new book, the University of Utah philosophy professor puts himself out on “a long, creaking limb” by suggesting that much of human ...

In "Beth Is Dead," a modern reimagining of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," Beth, who hasn't returned home from a New Year's Eve party the night before, goes from missing to dead within the first ...

The Soviet Union was a land of shortages, but there was no shortage of acerbic sayings. One I heard while working as a journalist in Moscow in the early 1980s: “A pessimist is a well-informed optimist ...