What Meta bought with its $18 billion settlement
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Ed Mulholland/Zuffa LLCMeta's new restrictions on teen accounts come with some convenient exceptions.A version of this...
France has fallen in love with de Gaulle all over again
Robert Zaretsky teaches at the University of Houston and author most recently of “Chasing Happiness: Stendhal and the Art of...
‘Backrooms,’ ‘Obsession’ and the pipeline of YouTube fame to horror? Casper Kelly is way ahead of you
If Casper Kelly ever found himself in the 2014 horror film “It Follows,” in which a sexually transmitted malevolent entity...
How the Foo Fighters Fill a Three-Hour Set List, Night After Night
It all begins with a dry-erase whiteboard. That’s how Foo Fighters begin the process of turning their vast catalog into...
You Can Photograph This Pretty Irish Castle. You Just Can’t Go In.
The tourists come by the busload, disgorging from motorized behemoths that seem improbable for many Irish roads. With cellphones at...
Who pays for a shadow fleet oil spill? No one
In March, I wrote in Fortune that the shadow fleet exists because the rules of the sea are fundamentally voluntary....
Charlie XCX, All Things Go and the top D.C.-area concerts to see in September
The busy summer concert season will end eventually — but not this month. September’s schedule is packed with superstar appearances...
Disaster Experts Say Nepal Glacier Collapse Was Difficult to Predict
It was a wall of water and mud traveling at such speed that it engulfed buildings in seconds. In the...
It’s Too Early to Declare a Culture-War Winner
It didn’t work. That is the howl of grief at the core of Claudia Rankine’s new book, Triage: that all...
Inside Afghanistan’s Secret Schools for Girls
Ayesha goes to a secret school six days a week, mainly to keep seeing people outside her home. It’s the...
