Trump admin withholds Medicaid funds in latest example of weaponizing real and imagined fraud
The Trump administration announced on July 21, 2026, that it’s withholding US$867 million in federal healthcare funding for California and…
The shrunken ambition of Ryan Murphy’s “Love Story”
For a time, John F. Kennedy Jr. was one of the most famous boys in America. He was three years…
This Miyazaki film sees who we really are at heart
Throughout July, The Swell celebrated the lasting cultural inspiration of animator Hayao Miyazaki and the legendary films he created with…
Spokane wildfires are a warning to the rest of the world
If you need any proof that climate change is not some far off problem for future generations — it’s our…
I was a farmers market failure
When I moved to Chicago, I assumed I would become a slightly different person. Not in the wholehearted country-song sense,…
Spider-Man should give up romance and focus on his job
For a good portion of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” we watch all versions of the film’s namesake arachnid-juiced hero (Tom…
Library book found in fireplace returns 150 years late
An Australian library has welcomed home a book roughly 150 years overdue after it was discovered inside a tea crate…
“My job is to find out the truth”: Dana Bash grills RFK Jr. over vaccines
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly clashed with CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday’s “State of the…
The casting of “The Odyssey” proves Nolan’s muse was star power
Allow me to sing, o Muse, of a recent dinner conversation about “The Odyssey.” The setting was not a Greek…
The better way to make tomato toast
The mind keeps a strange little pantry of its own. It shelves a photograph you paused over, a dish you…