Eurovision Bars Warring Countries From Hosting
Winner Dara from Bulgaria with the song “Bangaranga” performs again after her victory in the final of the 70th Eurovision...
‘Dead Souls’ Review: A Mean Satire About American Exploitation
When an enigmatic man in a bowler hat arrives in a rough-and-tumble frontier town in Arizona, circa 1890, the locals...
Back-to-school season is hectic. To stay sane, we do the bare minimum for 1 month.
The author (not pictured) said she makes sure her family doesn't schedule anything beyond the essentials during the first month...
Homeland Security Paid $464 Million for Airplanes. Then It Parked Them.
Starting last fall, the Department of Homeland Security spent $464 million on a no-bid contract to buy 10 used airplanes...
Flirting Is a Lost Art
—CSA-Printstock—Getty Images Last year, at a party, I bumped into a handsome guy who I had met the month before...
In Wyoming, a Primary Fight Between the Right and the Far Right
In Wyoming, a Primary Fight Between the Right and the Far Right One of the most conservative states has a...
Four writers discuss: Is college worth it? ‘It better be.’
This month, students across the United States are starting to head back to campus. Shopping — for classes, for course...
The Jonestown Style of Politics
In January 1977, not two years before Reverend Jim Jones would orchestrate his followers’ deaths by the hundreds, a San...
So You Want to Build an A.I. Star?
In a bright, modernist conference room in Midtown Manhattan this spring, a small group of employees at an artificial intelligence...
Longing for a Time Before Smartphones
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Gen Z has romanticized the technology of...
