A University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student if speaking out after a photo of himself and his peers defending an American flag from protesters on campus went viral.

Caitlin Clark opened up about what she hopes to she the Indiana Fever achieve during her rookie WNBA season, but her first-year goal does not necessarily include a championship.

Researchers say an orangutan in Indonesia appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a plant. It's the latest example of an animal using natural remedies from the wild.

Matthew McConaughey and his wife Camila Alves dropped their pants to play pickleball and also promote their tequila.

Rep. Jim Banks is unveiling new legislation to force the Biden administration to severely hike penalties against China and its allied actors over the U.S. fentanyl crisis.

Anti-Israel agitators and a pro-Israel crowd found unlikely unity during a demonstration at the University of Alabama when both groups began chanting about President Biden.

Show host Piers Morgan argued with Cornel West over the Israel-Hamas war in a debate about racism, civilian deaths in Gaza and the escalation of the war.

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here.Before Pauline Kael was Pauline Kael, she was still very much Pauline Kael. When her first essay for The Atlantic ran in November 1964, she had not yet lost it at the movies. She had not yet become Pauline Kael, the vaunted and polarizing film critic for The New Yorker. She had not yet inspired a movement of imitators, the “Paulettes,” or established herself as one of the most influential film writers ever. But the stylistic verve, the uncategorizable taste, the flamethrowing provocation—they were all there. “There’s a woman writer I’d be tempted to call a three-time loser,” she wrote in her Atlantic essay. “She’s Catholic, Communist, and lesbian.”The only unusual thing about this assault is that Kael does not name her target. Elsewhere in the essay, she doesn’t hesitate to do so. And no one is beyond reproach—not Luis Buñuel, not Michelangelo Antonioni, not Ingmar Bergman. She assails about a dozen notables in the course of a few thousand words, firing off zingers at machine-gun rate. Her appetite for pugilism and reservoir of snark are seemingly inexhaustible. Academics are cultural vampires. The critic Dwight Macdonald is a “Philistine.” The writer Susan Sontag is a “semi-intellectually respectable” critic who, unfortunately, has “become a real swinger.”Kael’s Atlantic essay, which ran under the headline “Are Movies Going to Pieces?,” is a broad lament about the state of the industry and the art form, published at a moment when French New Wave and experimental art films were upending conventional assumptions about what a movie could or should be. Most audiences “don’t care any longer about the conventions of the past, and are too restless and apathetic to pay attention to motivations and complications, cause and effect,” she fretted. “They want less effort, more sensations, more knobs to turn.” In short, they’ve “lost the narrative sense.” Critics and art-house audiences weren’t any different. They’d been bamboozled into venerating pseudo-intellectual mumbo jumbo as high art. They’d come to accept “lack of clarity as complexity, [accept] clumsiness and confusion as ‘ambiguity’ and as style,” she wrote. “They are convinced that a movie is cinematic when they don’t understand what’s going on.”Sixty years later, although Kael’s writing crackles as much as ever, much of her argument reads stodgy and conservative. She tries her best to preempt this charge—“I trust I won’t be mistaken for the sort of boob who attacks ambiguity or complexity”—and it’s true that her disdain for the new cinema is not uniform. She holds certain specimens in high regard, such as Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless and François Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player. But even so, she sometimes sounds like another old fogey grumbling about kids these days.Her broader prognosis, though, is spot-on. In one sense at least, movies really were going to pieces. In the late 1950s and early ’60s, a gulf was opening between mass entertainment and high art, between movies and cinema. For the latter, Kael had boundless disdain. “Cinema,” she wrote, “is not movies raised to an art but rather movies diminished, movies that look ‘artistic.’” And its rise was a tragedy, a scourge that would over time kill what she loved about the form: “Cinema, I suspect, is going to become so rarefied, so private in meaning, and so lacking in audience appeal that in a few years the foundations will be desperately and hopelessly trying to bring it back to life, as they are now doing with theater.” It would become merely “another object of academic study and ‘appreciation.’”Kael believed in movies as pop culture, believed their mass appeal was what gave them life. She wanted them to be something about which you could have an opinion without having any special expertise, something that regular people could talk about. And so she wrote about movies like a regular person—an extremely eloquent, extremely opinionated, extremely entertaining regular person, but a regular person all the same.Whether or not you share Kael’s view that the movie-cinema schism was a disastrous development, her predictions have largely come to pass. Sixty years later, there are the films that win at the box office, and there are the films that win at the Oscars. (Not to mention the films that critics like best, which constitute a third category entirely.) Last summer’s Barbenheimer phenomenon was a notable exception, but the overall trend is clear. This year, the Golden Globes codified the divide with the introduction of a new award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement—an award reserved for movies because the standard categories now primarily recognize cinema. And Kael saw it all coming back in 1964.

This week the Page Six studio was booked and busy. Jesse Lally from “The Valley” stopped by to dish on dating after his breakup from wife, Michelle. Plus he revealed where he stands with Kristen Doute. Amir Lancaster of “Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard” spilled some tea on the season. And Rachel Fuda chatted all about...

Police in Philadelphia said a body found in a trash-strewn alley in March has been identified as 4-year-old Damari Carter, who was allegedly beaten to death last year and thrown out in a duffel bag.

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What will happen to the anti-Israel agitators who were arrested Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles? UCLA's own warning includes a key detail.

A disturbing video has been released showing the moment an elderly Texas restaurant owner was attacked by a group of deadbeats who he says refused to pay for their meals at his eatery.

There wasn't a dry eye in the room on this morning's episode of The View.

When you work for Joe Biden, laws really are for the little people. Even when you're in charge of enforcing them.

President Biden broke 10 days of silence about pro-terror anarchy on college campuses on May 2, saying the US is not a “lawless country” and “order must prevail” while acknowledging the right to peaceful demonstrations — and rejecting calls to bring out the National Guard.

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A professor’s recent arrest might change everything.

Jimmy Fallon joked that during Donald Trump's hush money trial, the former President needs a shock collar to "stay woke" after he appeared to fall asleep.

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Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesAfter weeks of pro-Palestinian protests and chaotic arrests on college campuses, President Joe Biden finally responded to calls for military action.Asked on Thursday about the protests, which have spread coast to coast and resulted in an estimated 1,900+ arrests, Biden gave a series of curt answers.“Have the protests forced you to reconsider any of the policies with regard to the region?” a reporter at his Thursday press conference asked.Read more at The Daily Beast.

It's déjà vu for the luxury fitness company: Peloton is cutting about 400 more jobs, and its CEO is stepping down just two years after a major shakeup.

Season 3 of "Selling the OC," which is set to dive further into Hall and Stanaland's fling, starts streaming Friday on Netflix.

Get ready for Mulaney's "comically unconventional show."

Russia's share of global GDP is set to decline between now and the end of the decade, the International Monetary Fund has said.

Sen. Bob Menendez shouldn’t be allowed to cause “confusion and distraction” by calling a shrink to testify that he stashes cash at home because of past trauma.

Americans ranked their favorite types of salads, dressings and toppings in a new survey. For National Salad Month, some even added some off-the-path foods to their healthy meal option.

'Steel Magnolias' returns to theaters for its 35th anniversary, and the first look at Kate Winslet as a legendary photographer in 'Lee.' David Daniel reports.

President Biden defended the right to free speech but says 'order must prevail' on college campuses across the country.

CBSYou might be wondering why everyone on social media was gossiping about Applebee’s on Wednesday evening. No, it’s not because two characters in Challengers go on a dinner date to grab Dollaritas. It’s much more harrowing than that: A player on Survivor threw a full-on temper tantrum over not getting to eat one of Applebee’s (in)famous burgers as part of a reward challenge. Bummer.Throughout Season 46, marketing strategist Liz Wilcox has become a contestant known for two things, and two things only: She’s a millionaire (billionaire? No one really knows) and she has so many allergies that she hasn’t been able to eat anything since the merge. Following the most recent episode of Survivor, however, Liz will now be known for a third thing—Applebee’s.Jeff Probst kicks off this week’s reward challenge with a bit of an insult: “You all look noticeably smaller,” Probst says. “Your bodies are shrinking.” Yeah, no duh, Jeff. A couple of weeks into the season without solid food; they’re ravenous! Luckily, Probst is offering the biggest reward of the season to the challenge’s winner. The reward will be a feast from a certain restaurant—you might be able to guess which one I’m talking about.Read more at The Daily Beast.

West Virginia's attorney general says the state will appeal a ruling that allowed the transgender girl to compete.

Pro-Palestinian protesters may have a more difficult time finding jobs in the future, O'Leary warned.

Story dad tells his 10-year-old to illustrate his love for wife might be a little disturbing for some.

At its best, director David Leitch's movie is a romantic comedy that coasts on the charisma between Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. The stunts aren't bad, either.

Trump claims that his vice president was also holding onto classified documents but was not indicted.

A woman has been backed after sharing why she's refused to fulfill her future daughter-in-law's one wedding-day request.

Trump campaigned in Wisconsin on Wednesday ahead of his likely re-match against President Joe Biden in November.

"I’ve never seen y'all really connect the way Maya and I did," she teased.

Hillary Clinton's team urged President Biden's team to get him on Howard Stern's show, with Stern's producer saying she was "really helpful" in making it happen.

Junk science has put people on death row.

'Get a golden they said, it will be fun they said," wrote the owner.

Officials have recovered a fifth body in the wreckage of Baltimore, Maryland's Francis Scott Key Bridge, which tragically collapsed in March. The post VIDEO: Fifth Body Recovered in Wreckage at Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse Site appeared first on Breitbart.

With just two weeks to go before this year's Cannes Film Festival in France, festival workers are reportedly planning to protest and strike in a move that threatens to upstage celebrity red carpet events and the premieres of several highly anticipated movies. The post Report: Cannes Film Festival Facing Possible Labor Strikes and Protests appeared first on Breitbart.

New York City officials say actions have been put in place to prevent a fraud investigator from returning to work after he faces federal COVID-19 pandemic related fraud charges.

“Star Wars: The Bad Batch” is an animated show from a galaxy far, far away that touches nearly every corner of the franchise.