Borderlands Is a Video Game Movie Made for Absolutely No One
On the surface, a Borderlands movie makes perfect sense. When video game mega-publisher 2K released the first entry in 2009, it quickly accrued a fanbase—one...
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The Failure of the Watergate Reforms
Fifty years ago, Richard Nixon resigned and became the first and (so far) the only President of the U.S. driven from the nation’s highest office....
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What Y2K Can Teach Us About the CrowdStrike Outage
We were warned that our embrace of computer technology would lead to disaster. By incorporating computers into ever more areas of our lives, we were...
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The Republican National Convention That Changed the GOP
As the Republican Party gathers for its convention this year in Milwaukee, it is emrbacing its most combative partisan voices and adopting a far-right platform....
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Should You Try to Raise Your ‘Good’ Cholesterol?
Most of the time, you want your cholesterol to be low—ideally less than 150 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL). But as you likely know if you’ve...
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The Dangers of Making Others Feel Invisible
The New York City subway, 2019. An older man walks on along with a woman I assume to be his wife. He turns to her,...
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Why Cambodia Matters to the U.S.-China Rivalry
Little could be more symbolic of the power struggle playing out in Southeast Asia than what is happening on the outskirts of Ream National Park,...
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We’ve All Become Travel Influencers. It’s Ruining the Planet
There’s a patch of countryside along Iceland’s southern coast that was pretty much empty 15 years ago. The family that had owned and farmed the...
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Best Movies to Watch on a Plane
What makes a perfect movie to watch on a flight? A few core traits come to mind: something bright and easy to see on a...
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On Loving Day, Remember the Families Separated by the U.S.
June 12 marks the 57th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia, deeming that state’s anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional and affording mixed-race marriages legal...
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What a Hospice Nurse Wants You to Know About Death
I am asked all the khbrknews why in the world I would do something as difficult as working for hospice. People often ask, “Isn’t it...
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Breaking Down the Ending of Netflix’s ‘Hierarchy’
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Hierarchy In the opening episode of Hierarchy, Netflix’s new K-drama about students at an elite private school in Korea,...