The legal claim of entrapment sounds like a way to spare the innocent from overzealous lawmen, but the history of the defense reveals it's more about the criminal than the crime

Conspiracy theorists seem like the polar opposite of sober technocratic pundits favored in mainstream press. But they are not so different

There are only three tribes in Kenya. The haves. The wanna-haves. The have-them-removed.

Affect theory takes on sadness, but is just getting through depression good enough?

In America, Ai Weiwei isn't a dissident, he's a foreign policy asset and an artist of art's limits

We know exactly how the secular ritual of televised apology is supposed to go, so why does it always seem to go wrong?

Orwell's promise: simplify your English, avoid orthodoxy. But 70 years on, journalists are still in thrall to power despite cleaner prose.

Stuck in between the Hollywood star system and nascent independent cinema, Richard Pryor never got the roles he deserved, or the roles we needed him to play.