How a subreddit of amateur day traders punked Wall Street by pumping up GameStop; a teacher shares how she manages 18 elementary students on a daily, four-hour video call; how the pandemic turned Groundhog Day from a classic comedy into a horror movie with life lessons; fixing long-term care in Canada; magic marks 100 years of sawing women in half; why Gandhi's assassin is now more popular than ever in India and more.

In defense of constitutional monarchies in spite of Julie Payette, Stan Rogers' brother and son on TikTok sea shanties, Donald Trump's post-presidential legal worries, the trouble with vaccine passports, Hamilton's musical director Alex Lacamoire and more.

Bryan Fogel takes on Jamal Khashoggi’s killing in his new documentary, why the Black is Beautiful movement still resonates today, Bruce Springsteen’s original manager on the song that launched his career and more.

How the pandemic messed with our dreams, professional sports announcers calling people’s catfight videos, Fraggle Rock gets a reboot, how zookeepers coped with the pandemic, Choir! Choir! Choir!’s physically-distanced sing-alongs and more.

Why security researchers are worried abut cyber attacks on the vaccine supply chain, deaf percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie reviews the film Sound of Metal, our music panel runs down the best tunes of 2020, Nancy Drew at 90: the unintentional feminist, and more.

The U.K. enlists an army of volunteers for the biggest vaccine rollout in modern history, graphic novelist Seth explains why Christmas is the perfect time for Victorian ghost stories, how Quebec's secularism law is driving some religious women out of the province, an ambient musician turns her hospital stay into a campaign for quieter care and more.

Our critics' takes on the rise in LGBTQ-themed holiday movies, Sister Helen Prejean on the surge of federal executions in the U.S., Rebecca Roanhorse on writing Marvel's Indigenous Voices #1, Ratatouille the crowd-sourced TikTok musical takes off, Day 6 books columnist Becky Toyne delivers her holiday gift-giving guide and more.

What doctors wish they were hearing from politicians on COVID-19, why The Queen's Gambit is the best sports show ever, Waubgeshig Rice remembers Indigenous hockey icon Fred Sasakamoose, The Grand Ole Opry turns 95, Linda Thomas-Greenfield is Joe Biden's pick for U.S. ambassador to the UN, and more.

A COVID-19 trial volunteer on his decision to sign up, polio vaccine creator Jonas Salk's son on the ethics of patenting vaccines, looking back at Toy Story's origins as it turns 25, how Dungeons and Dragons is tackling racism in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, sizing up Canada's new data privacy laws, that time a town in Oregon blew up a whale and more.

How the COVID-19 crisis in Canada's long-term care homes could have been prevented, Veep executive producer David Mandel on Rudy Giuliani's viral press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, why conservatives and conspiracy theorists are embracing the alternative social media platform Parler, looking back on the early days of Nickelodeon, Bruce Springsteen's manager on how The Boss got his start and more.