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September 11, 2024
Paige Oamek
Trump’s Craziest, Most Idiotic, Right-Wing Mad Libs Line During Debate
Donald Trump tried to combine right-wing talking points on transgender people, migrants, and criminals all into one.
July 11, 2023
Phillip Maciak
The Tantalizing, Lonely Search for Alien Life
Scientists disagree about what life on other planets even means. Would we know it when we saw it?
December 14, 2021
Jason Colavito
Congress Is About to Send the Pentagon on a Wild Flying-Saucer Chase
The long lobbying campaign of a handful of UFO obsessives and crank pseudoscientists is finally paying off.
May 21, 2021
Jason Colavito
How Washington Got Hooked on Flying Saucers
A collection of well-funded UFO obsessives are using their Capitol Hill connections to launder some outré, and potentially dangerous, ideas.
February 6, 2018
Jo Livingstone
How Netflix Ruined the
Cloverfield
Franchise
The original movie, as well as its elaborate marketing campaign, were steeped in mystery. What happened?
March 24, 2017
Tim Grierson
Life
: Extraterrestrial Monsters Die Hard
This efficient, "Alien"-indebted sci-fi thriller makes the most out of some well-worn horror tropes.
April 14, 2016
David Kipping
How to Hide Earth From an Alien Civilization
And why we might not want to.
January 22, 2016
Gwyneth Kelly
Is
The X-Files
’s Old-School Paranoia Still Relevant?
When it comes to TV reboots, nostalgia can be a deadly weapon.
January 4, 2016
Rebecca Leber
UFO activists called it right: Hillary Clinton believes the truth is out there.
December 17, 2015
Sasha Belenky
NASA is set to get a lot more money so it can search for alien life.
July 16, 2015
Rebecca Leber
The Extraterrestrial Vote
On Pluto, aliens, John Podesta's X-Files obsession, and the 2016 election
April 5, 2014
Ian Steadman
A Teeny Moon Is The Galaxy's Best Hope For Extraterrestrial Life
And it's in our solar system
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