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In “El Paso,” Jazmine Ulloa paints her hometown as a microcosm for all that is good and bad about the United States.

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Our writer reflects on how the modern film landscape has changed the meaning of “indie” and what that means for filmmakers and audiences.

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Harvard scientist Avi Loeb has slammed a seemingly far-fetched proposal to intercept interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with a spacecraft, claiming that we’re putting energy in the wrong places.