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‘Ulya’ Interview on Latvia Basketball Legend Film

Latvia made Oscar history in 2025 when Gints Zilbalodis‘ Flow won the best animated feature award. Two years later, the country has selected a very different movie to represent it at the Oscars 2027. The Baltic country picked Ulya from director Viesturs Kairišs (January), which stars up-and-coming Latvian actor Kārlis Arnolds Avots and world-premiered at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section, as its...

What it’s like to move to Europe for free health care

Tuesday, at exactly 7 a.m., I arrived at my general practitioner’s office, in the basement level of his house, two blocks from mine in Mellieħa, Malta. There are six chairs in the waiting area. Ikea, I think. People note who got there first and go in, in turn. On his desk, there’s an ancient laptop with a big monitor running a vaguely Y2K version...

Are 2 Mike Rogers staffers registered agents for Israel?

Claim: Two staffers for Mike Rogers, Michigan’s Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, are registered as agents for the Israeli government. Rating: Context The claim stems from a report by Drop Site News, an independent investigative journalism organization. Snopes verified the existence of two filings that comply with the Foreign Agent Registration Act of 1938. Those filings confirm that Abigail Ronson and Jesse Stokes, both...

What If Performancewear Didn’t Look…Like That?

The level of tactical gear — or, Gorp-iness — in someone’s outfit is a useful litmus test for determining whether someone spends too much time on r/menswear or is a doomsday preparer. Often, it’s both. This reality cannot, however, eclipse the movement’s underlying ethos, one that asserts that clothes should be able to be put through their paces and survive to tell the tale....

Why the AO3 Outage is a Big Deal

Fanfiction writers and readers are mourning. Archive of Our Own, or AO3, had to shut down without warning due to a hacking event. The site that boasts 11 million registered users and 18 million works of fanfic might be down for weeks. Fanfiction readers are legion, and these works have become a major force in reading culture. As English professor Anne Jamison, author of...