In 2016, during the first Trump campaign, I wrote an article asking whether American democracy could survive the reduction of politics to entertainment. At the time, the question seemed exaggerated to ...

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Steven Spielberg is in his aliens exist era — but in truth, he’s been there since at least 1977. That’s when the director ...

The acclaimed sci-fi novel has inspired countless adaptations, including Steven Spielberg’s 2005 version starring Tom Cruise.

With "Disclosure Day," Spielberg has composed a benediction for all who hold faith: that we might find, and share, a ...

Steven Spielberg's new film “Disclosure Day” explores extraterrestrial life and its impact on religion. UFOs, now also called ...

Spielberg has always made his extraterrestrials glowy and good—except the one time he really, really didn’t.

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The science fiction film trope of the passionate astronomer monitoring radio telescopes in search of transmissions from an extraterrestrial intelligence, then actually hearing one, seems cliché today ...

The White House has launched a website that, at first glance, appears to offer classified intelligence about extraterrestrials. In actuality, it provides information on the arrests of immigrants.