Season three of The Bear, the Hulu darling that critics previously called “funny, raw, real” and “an authentic, breakneck look at restaurant life,” did not bring its best this time around. The New York Times deemed it a “clanging, wailing…
The great debate in the left-of-center political world is underway. Should Joe Biden stay on the 2024 ticket, or should he quit the race? The Biden doubters argue that the president, already trailing Trump, demonstrated during last week’s…
If the goal of national Democrats is to keep Donald Trump out of the White House to protect democracy — and they’ve largely framed the 2024 election in just those existential terms — who is best equipped to do it? And after a dismal debate…
The Republican party is going in two directions on race at the same time. Electorally speaking, the modern GOP has never been so diverse. Each of the past two elections, and most available 2024 polling, reveals the GOP making real inroads…
Hurricane Beryl reached Category 5 strength as it tore into the Caribbean on Monday, with sustained winds reaching 165 miles per hour. This marks the earliest point in the season on record that a tropical storm has reached this intensity.…
Last Thursday night, President Joe Biden advertised his inability to reliably remember the topics of his own sentences to over 50 million Americans. The president’s excruciating debate performance triggered an avalanche of op-eds calling…
If you’re looking for electoral suspense, don’t look across the pond. Barring a polling error of world historic proportions, 14 years of Conservative rule will come to an end in the United Kingdom on July 4. The question isn’t whether…
It’s undeniable: the era of Chappell Roan is upon us. At music festivals and on the lists forecasting pop’s next big thing, there she is: big red hair and big powerhouse voice, unapologetically queer lyrics and exuberant drag queen…
Hurricane season has begun, and it’s off to a frightening start. On Monday, Beryl, the first named hurricane of the year, pummeled into tropical islands in the southeast Caribbean as a Category 4 storm. The Grenadines and other islands in…
If you spent Monday morning following each of the cases handed down by the Supreme Court, you’re probably experiencing a bit of whiplash. The biggest news out of the Court on Monday, of course, is a sweeping decision holding that former…
The Court’s six Republicans handed down a decision on Monday that gives Donald Trump such sweeping immunity from prosecution that there are unlikely to be any legal checks on his behavior if he returns to the White House. The Court’s three…
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In early December 2013, in the low-lying mountains of Guinea in West Africa, a 2-year-old named Emile Ouamouno had a sudden onset of strange symptoms: high fever, bloody stool, and vomiting. On December 6, the boy died in his home village…
Steven Phillips-Horst had a problem — er, “problem,” depending on who you ask — that plagues many a modern Spotify listener. No matter what song the podcaster and comedian played, whether by Taylor Swift or Celine Dion, Morgan Wallen or…
For a fractious coalition that at times seems to be held together with spit, baling wire, and old memories of Barack Obama, the Democratic Party has a remarkably singular message: Donald Trump is an existential threat to the country. For…
What is “maternal mortality”? The dry, clinical term obscures a devastating loss: A person dies as a result of bringing a child into the world. That child loses a parent; a household is plunged into grief; a family that should be…
In 1955, the philosopher Charles Frankel was troubled. A committed civil libertarian, he had come to believe that the prevailing winds of public life had turned against his beloved liberalism. He wrote a book, The Case for Modern Man,…
Ali Jackson had been single for about four years, and like so many women, felt burned out on dating apps. Swiping had become a monotonous routine, something to do when she was bored. So Jackson decided to delete the apps and try something…
I’ve been on the consumer health beat for a few months now. That means I stand directly in the path of a lot of strikingly bad “wellness” advice on social media. For example: Take potato juice instead of antibiotics for strep throat (what?…
It has been a month since Google’s spectacular goof. Its new AI Overviews feature was supposed to “take the legwork out of searching,” offering up easy-to-read answers to our queries based on multiple search results. Instead, it told…
Kenya, one of east Africa’s more economically developed and democratically stable countries, has been rocked this week by a political crisis that reveals the deep cracks in both sides of that stability. Massive protests broke out earlier…
Fans of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) have had Saturday blocked off on their calendars for months. They were all anticipating the long-awaited return of former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion Conor McGregor in UFC 303…
What becomes of the mighty when they don’t merely fall from glory, but leap headlong while crowing about their own greatness? In this case, the mighty is Kevin Costner, and he hath not only fallen but hurtled over the edge with Horizon: An…
Since becoming president, Joe Biden has faced calls to step aside and not run for reelection out of concern that he’s too old for the job. And since his disastrous debate performance, those calls have only grown louder. What might be…
A viciously xenophobic demagogue — who fomented an insurrection against the US government less than four years ago — is on track to win the White House this fall. And the only remotely viable alternative to him, for now, is a massively…
On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that a federal law, providing that anyone who “obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so” commits a very serious federal crime, does not actually apply to everyone…
The Supreme Court handed down what is likely to be one of its most consequential modern-day decisions on Friday. Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo fully consolidates the Court’s dominance over federal agencies within the executive…
If President Joe Biden decides to drop out of the presidential race, it appears likely that his replacement at the top of the ticket would be his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris. Until this week, that possibility wasn’t really…
Following a disastrous performance in Thursday night’s presidential debate, President Joe Biden is facing a flood of calls from Democratic pundits and strategists to step aside and make way for a different Democratic nominee amid real…
The “Hawk Tuah Girl” has been called “the most famous person on the planet right now” on Joe Rogan’s podcast. That might be debatable, but she must at least be the most famous person in recent memory who gained notoriety because of…