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Moses Storm Doesn’t Want You to ‘Awwwwwwww’ at His Stories About Growing Up Poor

The creator of the acclaimed HBO Max stand-up special talks about living with a poverty mindset, what liberals get wrong about homelessness and why he’s comfortable admitting that he’s not that great of a comic, yet

Where Have All the Mikes and Michaels Gone?

Michael was the most popular baby name among boys for 44 out of the past hundred years, but good luck finding a baby named Mike these days

We’ve Never Gotten Over the Original ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’

With a new Netflix sequel coming out Friday, let’s salute the 1974 horror classic, whose brilliant simplicity, resonant themes and unfathomable evil are still impossible to shake

Skate and Destroy: When the Marines Tried to Send Skateboards into Battle

In 1999, the Marines launched a military exercise designed to road test a bunch of new weapons programs for 21st century combat. One of them was an urban assault combat skateboard. Yes, this really happened