Southern Living Names Best BBQ Joints in Every Southern State
By Robert Moss Barbecue inspires a special kind of loyalty in the South. When we asked Southern Living readers to name the best barbecue joint in their state, they showed up with strong opinions and even stronger favorites. Readers chose plenty of old standbys, but a...
The Inexplicable War
Why are we there? Is it because Israel was going to go there first/anyway, or because we wanted Israel to go? What are we doing there? Did we really bomb a girls’ school? How could we have made such a mistake? How can we not take responsibility if we did? You...
News From Around the South, 3/9 to 3/16
Mississippi-set Sinners wins four Academy Awards Sinners’ extraordinary run has finally come to an end at the Oscars 2026, nearly a year after it was first released in theaters. Ryan Coogler’s Southern Vampire drama had been surging coming into tonight, scoring more...
Silent Attacks on Personal Freedom
During the first Trump administration, the FBI quietly spent $5 million on Pegasus, an Israeli-developed software product known generically as zero click. Zero click permits the user to download the contents of another mobile or desktop device without tricking the...
The Downfall of ICE Barbie
I’m the last person to defend her. For starters, I’m a dog lover and shooting a puppy you “hate” because you couldn’t train her to hunt pheasant is no way to win my respect. The fact that she told the story on herself in her...Obiter Dicta
Last week, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission threatened to rescind the broadcast licenses of media entities that do Read More
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Mississippi-set Sinners wins four Academy Awards Sinners’ extraordinary run has finally come to an end at the Oscars 2026, nearly a year after it was first released in theaters. Ryan Coogler’s Southern Read More