Everything changed for Marisa Kabas on January 27. The Brooklyn-based independent journalist broke a major White House story through her newsletter The Handbasket. She published the scoop on a memo ...

Kate is finally free from her murky relationship status with Hal, which she can’t even enjoy because all anyone wants to do ...

For as long as I can remember, harbingers of doom, naysayers, outcasts at life’s rich feast, and garden-variety curmudgeons have been saying that the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Or words ...

Is it just me, or is the world going to hell in a handbasket? Shall we count the ways. There seems to be a tropical tempest forming in the Atlantic every other day now, threatening to become a major ...

Thomas Plante (@ThomasPlante) is the Augustin Cardinal Bea, SJ University Professor, professor of psychology and, by courtesy, religious studies at Santa Clara University and an emeritus adjunct ...

An item in my last column dealt with a reader's question about the origin of the expression "going to hell in a handbasket." I wrote that a few possibilities have been suggested, but that I could find ...

“Despite the massive growth of independent journalism, there’s still this idea that news is only “real” once it’s confirmed by massive corporate outlets. After all, could one woman with absolutely ...

When The Washington Post ran its first piece on the federal funding freeze last week, its reporters gave credit where it was due: It was independent journalist Marisa Kabas who had broken the story.

Our team has commissioned 25 essays on the history of digital media, which more or less overlaps with the 25 years we’re ...

An independent reporter claims that more than 1.7 million paying subscribers canceled their plans to DIsney streaming ...

Meta blocked a newspaper’s critical report about it on Facebook and its other social sites for hours, sparking a backlash that intensified after the company appeared to subsequently block links to the ...

To entertain, as Henry James once observed, is the first burden of the fiction writer, and happily there are a lot of ways to be, as James defined the job, "instructive and amusing." A writer can ...