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It is St. Patrick’s Day. You have consumed some amount of green liquid. You are wearing something you would not wear any other day of the year. And somewhere, on a television in a house near yours, a man in elaborate prosthetic makeup is delivering a pun before murdering someone with a pogo stick. This is tradition. This is culture. This is the Leprechaun franchise, and today of all days it demands to be taken seriously. Or not seriously. Honestly not seriously at all. Here is the thing about these eight films: none of them are good in the traditional…

Following President Trump’s lead, in 2025, Utah proposed a new “campus” to involuntarily detain and treat as many as 1,300 homeless people. There is little reason to think this planned re-institutionalization would improve the lives of the detainees—the evidence of long-term benefits of involuntary treatment for substance use and mental health disorders is mixed, at best, whereas the deprivation of liberty is undeniable. But Utah had no choice, Governor Spencer Cox explained, because “everything we’ve been doing has been a complete and abject failure.” Not true. Also in Salt Lake City, just six miles south of the proposed campus site,…

“This young girl seems innocent, but she may just be a devil in disguise.” Over the past several years, Mike Mignola and Rachele Aragno have delighted readers with chilling and charming tales of the adventurous young vampyr Leonide, so we’re especially thrilled to exclusively announce that this fall, Dark Horse Comics will release a Leonide the Vampyr hardcover collection containing the “Leonide the Vampyr: Miracle at the Crow’s Head one-shot, Leonide the Vampyr: A Christmas for Crows one-shot, Leonide the Vampyr: The House of Yonda #1–#2, and bonus sketchbook material.” In addition to the exclusive details, we also have the…

Each year, around the International Day of Happiness on March 20, the World Happiness Report compares well-being across nearly 150 countries. The question it raises is simple but profound: Where in the world are people living the happiest lives—and why? The rankings come from responses to a single question known as the Cantril ladder. This question asks people to rate their lives on a scale from 0 (the worst possible life) to 10 (the best possible life). Each country’s score reflects roughly 3,000 respondents across the past three years. As in many previous years, the 2026 report finds that Scandinavian…

The Denver Broncos were having a monotonous offseason. Then, they acquired Miami Dolphins star wide receiver Jaylen Waddle earlier this week, and the newcomer is thrilled to be playing in the Rockies. “I think I just bring another playmaker to the team. Someone that can help out and try to make plays to the best of my ability. I think it’s going to be a fun group,” Waddle said on Wednesday, according to NFL.com. “They have a lot of talent with Court [Coutland Sutton], Marv [Marvin Mims Jr.], Troy [Franklin], Pat [Bryant], Lil’Jordan [Humphrey]. I’m here to help in every fashion,…

ALISON BEARD: Welcome to HBR On Leadership. I’m HBR Executive Editor Alison Beard. On this show, we share case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, hand-selected to help you unlock the best in those around you. We carefully curate this feed from across the HBR portfolio, aiming to help you unlock your next level of leadership. I hope you enjoy the episode. Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Alison Beard. When a company division or product line has been struggling for some time, it can feel nearly impossible to get things back on track.…

I was definitely one of those people who said “Please” and “Thank you” to AI while interacting with it. On a recent podcast, I was asked if I use manners in case AI takes over the world. The question made me realize something: I’d stopped saying please and thank you to AI months ago, and not because I’d decided it won’t take over. I’d recognized that using manners was changing how I thought about it. I rarely thank my car or my maps app, which has helped me out of many sticky situations (though it has also gotten me into…

Guest Post by Natalie Leticia Gallón Kyiv, Ukraine—As Ukraine enters its fifth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion, a quieter crisis is unfolding. Beyond the front lines, the war’s brutality is leaving invisible wounds on the soldiers who fought to defend the country, exposing the long-term psychological toll of combat. With millions of soldiers estimated to be suffering from trauma-related conditions, not to mention civilians, Ukraine faces an urgent question: How will it treat the lasting mental scars of war? Among the emerging possibilities is psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) in treatment of war-related trauma, a controversial yet increasingly researched approach that some…

“I didn’t need a fucking dick to hold a camera.” That’s a poignant quote from multitalented filmmaker Mattie Do (Dearest Sister), one of the interviewees in Donna Davies’s (Creepy Cape Breton) 1000 Women in Horror. The documentary is written by and based on author Alexandra Heller-Nicholas’ 2020 book, 1000 Women in Horror: 1895-2018. It’s the kind of documentary that presents enough information that I feel satisfied when it’s over, but makes me excited to continue learning more about it on my own. Set to Teleportal’s “Pull the Trigger,” the opening credits sequence has traditional 1950s-looking characters surrounded by random horror…

When it comes to the work of legendary horror author Anne Rice and her iconic series The Vampire Chronicles, most conversations inevitably circle the same familiar figures: Lestat de Lioncourt, the Brat Prince himself, and his beautiful, tragic companion Louis de Pointe du Lac. Surrounding them are even more memorable men — Armand, Marius de Romanus, Daniel Molloy, and many more — all contributing to a wider vampiric history that, predominantly, has been dominated by white male figures. That particular focus reflects the world into which the books were written, a world steeped in ancient aristocracies, old patriarchies, and centuries…