Tim Blake Nelson discussed the differences between the Heaven's Gate cult and the January 6th cult. On June 5, The Leader, starring Tim Blake Nelson, 62, and Vera Farmiga, 52, made its premiere at the ...

Writer-director Michael Gallagher, another filmmaker who got his start on YouTube with millions of followers for shows like TotallySketch, has always been a bit obsessed with the infamous Heaven’s ...

Michael Gallagher's movie is the most potent drama about life inside a cult since "Martha Marcy May Marlene." So part of what’s disturbing about “The Leader,” a drama about the infamous Heaven’s Gate ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Tim Walz, Minnesota's governor and the Democratic nominee for vice president, is being subpoenaed by a U.S. House of Representatives committee to answer questions about the Feeding Our ...

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Tim Fernholz is a journalist who writes about technology, finance and public policy. He has closely covered the rise of the private space industry and is the author of Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, ...

Get free access to the most comprehensive World Cup coverage in The Athletic app. Four years before he’ll captain the United States at a home World Cup, Tim Ream “made peace” with the likelihood that ...

When director Michael Gallagher was eight years old, 39 people died in his neighborhood in San Diego, California. They were the victims of the infamous Heaven's Gate cult, who died in a coordinated ...

An investigational oral drug that targets RAS, the dominant oncogenic driver in pancreatic cancer, nearly doubled overall survival compared with common second-line chemotherapy regimens in patients ...

If you look at the history of cults, especially the ones that began to flourish in America in the 1970s, when they'd absorbed a lot of the New Age mystical we're-all-Jesus let-your-primal-feelings-out ...