Platforms like Pornhub and X allow increasingly extreme content — including pain, rape and incest — to become mainstream. Clare McGlynn is the academic on a mission to expose them. (Turner, The Times)
Read MoreAs the two stars arrive in the UK and Latin music becomes the UK’s fastest growing genre, Blanca Schofield explores the success of the new Spanish wave. (Schofield, The Times)
Read MoreGen Z Christians attend church more often than millennials, Gen X and baby boomers, according to the Barna Group, a firm that studies U.S. faith trends. In 2025, the typical Gen Z churchgoer attended nearly two weekends a month, the highest level since the firm began tracking, and up from around one weekend a month in 2020. (Bhutani, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreOfficials are investigating similar attacks across Europe, all claimed by a shadowy Islamist group that may be using low-cost, unsophisticated methods to sow fear in Jewish communities. (Specia & Ryckeaert, The New York Times)
Read MoreThe British author and presenter of Ancient Apocalypse claims Earth was inhabited by advanced pre-ancient peoples wiped out by a flood. Is he a real-life Indiana Jones or a dangerous conspiracy theorist? (Glancy, The Times)
Read MoreIn a note authorities said he’d sent to family members just before he allegedly tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, armed with a shotgun, handgun and knives, and exchanged fire with Secret Service agents, Allen had apparently referenced Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. (Paquette & Natanson, The Washington Post)
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