It’s a great irony of Succession that the plot is set in motion by an insistence on standing still. If Logan Roy had simply celebrated his 80th birthday, handed the keys to Kendall, and moved on to re
Democracy is most likely to break down through a series of incremental actions that cumulatively undermine the electoral process, resulting in a presidential election that produces an outcome clearly
In a year of marginally pared-down restrictions, even while the specter of the pandemic was ever-present, entertainment played out with a degree of experimentation. Movie theaters gradually reopened,
Profiles December 13, 2021 Issue “I take him as seriously as I take my own life,” he says of his character, Kendall Roy. By December 5, 2021 Adam McKay says of Strong’s portrayal of Kendall Roy, “He’s
Critic’s Notebook In Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get Back,” Ono is a performance artist at the height of her powers. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each m
There are few commercial principles more reliable than this: there will always be another James Bond movie. It isn’t always easy to see how he’ll get to where he’s going next – and the franchise’s pro
Posted in: City Guide , Rants and Raves , Restaurants There is something to be said about a truly disastrous meal, a meal forever indelible in your memory because it’s so uniquely bad, it can only be
I n November 2001, Terry Pratchett was in Chester, famed for its Roman ruins and well-preserved medieval architecture. Staying at a hotel in the city centre, Pratchett opened the window of his room, a
I n a warehouse by Farringdon station, in central London, I am watching people burn through millions of pounds of investment in real time. Great big stacks of cash, all bet on the assumption that the
NEW YORK — Episode 4. Season 47. “I got a lot of notes here.” It’s 10:37 p.m. “Chloe, you’ve got to play it to camera.” Fifty-three minutes to showtime. “James, can we get you up in the seat?” You can
“I’m only 44,” said Rob McElhenney, who is devoting much of his second act to nurturing new talent. “So, am I going to sit back and just wait to die?” Credit... Magdalena Wosinska for The New York Tim
K at Kat Norton is a Microsoft Excel influencer. She has over a million followers on TikTok and Instagram, where she goes by the name Miss Excel, and she’s leveraged that into a software training busi
If you ask Jimmy Bailey what killed his best friend Mark Calivas, his answer is simple: “It was Apple.” How else could he explain how the Apple Store wellness champion — known for evangelizing therapy
$91.5b per year, doubling every year Cory Doctorow 2 days ago · 7 min read The world’s economy ground to a halt during the pandemic as millions died, production slowed or stopped altogether, and the r
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Members of Bored Ape Yacht Club, the internet’s hottest NFT project, monkeyed around IRL at Ape Fest 2021. How long can the party last?
Around 11 p.m. the night before Halloween, staff at the Bright Moments art gallery in downtown Manhattan hear what sounds like a pack of wild apes…
Jon Stewart knows that you’re likely to position his forthcoming Apple TV+ series as his hotly anticipated return to TV. It’s just that he’d rather you didn’t. “It just feels arrogant,” says the longt
A good way to get people talking, in this lingering pandemic era, is to ask whether they have tried to rent a car lately. Even if they haven’t, they have likely heard stories, perhaps about largely em
I n late October 2020, Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, was attending the confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett when his cellphone rang. He answered with a whisper and walked out to t
T here was a moment, back in, oh, 2012, when I thought I’d be able to keep up with it all. And by “it all”, I meant all the good TV shows, all the good movies, all the good music. From my tiny studio
Home Music Music Features He was a provocative media darling for decades. Offstage, exes allege, he was an abuser who made their lives hell. A Rolling Stone investigation based on court documents and
Share Comment Fifty years ago this winter, a young student teacher by the name of Don Rawitsch introduced his eighth grade American history class to a computer game on westward expansion that he had d
The ‘Saturation Theory’ helps me figure out when to stop researching and start writing Clive Thompson Nov 7 · 5 min read Photo via Libreshot I’m a long-form journalist, so I’ll spend many weeks — typi
S econd jobs can be incredibly lucrative – just ask any of the MPs who gained at least £6m collectively from their side gigs since the start of the pandemic. But it’s not only MPs benefiting from seco
Netflix/Sunrise/Ringer illustration For once, I’m inclined to praise and defend—with caveats—a Western live-action adaptation of a classic anime series. On Friday, Netflix premiered its long-anticipat
The Port of Savannah in Georgia is the third-largest container port in the United States. An enduring traffic jam at the Port of Savannah reveals why the chaos in global shipping is likely to persist.
When you pull up to the CIA headquarters in Langley , you have to shout your Social Security number out the window into a speaker, like when you’re ordering fries at a drive-through. Much like the Uni
The new James Bond film No Time To Die will be Daniel Craig's last – ushering in a new era for the franchise. But what changes can fans of the super-spy series expect, asks Al Horner. J James Bond is
All of Boris Johnson’s new post- Brexit trade deals put together will have an economic benefit of just £3 to £7 per person over the next 15 years, according to the government’s own figures. The tiny e
Last year, former New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman attempted to interrupt a cycle of cancel culture by offering to educate an offender rather than pile on. When fellow NFL wide receiv
This post is free. Most are not. Subscribe now. Let’s start with one of my favorite random internet facts: Jonah Peretti, one of the original founders of BuzzFeed, wrote a paper that foretold the site
Titane (2021), dir Julia Ducournau One of the most common critical responses to Titane , Julia Ducournau’s strange, endlessly evolving followup to 2016’s Raw, is to oversimplify it; the headline of a
The Golden Arches remain, but McDonald’s looks pretty different than it did in the ’80s and ’90s. Brandon Bell/Getty Images If you’ve ever had a hankering for a Big Mac in Orlando, Florida, there’s a
Jon Stewart on the set of The Daily Show in 2015. Brad Barket for Comedy Central/Getty Images Jon Stewart is back, and it’s a little bit weird. Stewart’s new TV series, The Problem With Jon Stewart on
Stanley Donwood I can’t believe the innocent world we lived in when we were making this work. It was before 9/11, before the “war on terror”, before the conjoining of the police and the military – all
By Perri Klass, M.D. and Lisa Damour Illustrations by Julia Rothman We all want to be the best parents we can be for our children, but there is often conflicting advice on how to raise a kid who is co
For decades, VR has failed to live up to expectations. Yet somehow, it keeps receiving more chances and more resources. It has been seven years since Palmer Luckey appeared on the cover of WIRED magaz
There were dead bodies, stolen goods, knotty plots, amoral protagonists, and irredeemable villains. And no—we’re not talking about the film noir era of the 1940s and ’50s. From late 1989 to early 2001
Meta—the company formerly known as Facebook—desperately wants you to believe that it is going to put the future on your face. That was the gist of Mark Zuckerberg’s hour-and-a-half announcement today
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