Stranger Things Started as a Triumph of Trauma Bonding. It Ended as a Casualty of the Franchise Machine
This article discusses plot points from Stranger Things Season 5, Part 2. Try to remember what it was like to...
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Trump just declared December 26th a national holiday. What’s open and closed?
President Donald Trump’s recent executive order has turned the post-Christmas slump into an official extension of the holiday season, designating...
‘We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’—Trump’s Mass Deportations Will Only Grow From Here
When Donald Trump won a second term as US president a year ago, members of violent militias and far-right extremist...
A Behind-the-Scenes Player of a Transformed Broadway Takes a Bow
By the 1980s, most of the drama that took place on West 42nd Street was the kind that theater-loving New...
Why 2025 was hell for job hunters
There is no better window into the soul of America’s striving professional class than LinkedIn, a site that this year...
What It’s Like When Your Wife Goes on Testosterone
After years of a marriage that had little sex in it, Greg Carter had largely accepted that his wife no...
The Star of ‘Frosty the Snowman’ Had ‘At Least Three’ Secret Families, According to His Son
Jackie Vernon’s son, David, had some interesting things to share about the Frosty the Snowman star. During an appearance on...
It Matters Who Owns the National Debt. And a Big Shift Is Occurring.
Many Americans have heard that they should worry about the staggering size of the national debt. For the first time...
Book Club: Read ‘The Hounding,’ by Xenobe Purvis, With the Book Review
Welcome to the Book Review Book Club! Every month, we select a book to discuss with our readers. Last month,...
Some elite AI researchers say language is limiting. Here’s the new kind of model they are building instead.
Top AI researchers, such as Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun, are building world models, which they say have more potential...
As millions of Gen Zers face unemployment, CEOs of Amazon, Walmart, and McDonald’s say opportunity is still there—if you have the right mindset
2025 has been a rocky year for Gen Z college graduates. Entry-level hiring has slowed, competition has intensified, and the...
Zelensky Says He’ll Meet With Trump in the ‘Near Future’
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Friday that he would meet soon with President Trump, as Ukraine and the...
7 Questions to Ask Yourself for a Happier New Year
At the end of every year, I like to reflect by asking myself a question. This year, I’m mulling one...
5 AI advertising controversies that turned heads this year, from Meta’s AI granny to Coca-Cola’s shape-shifting trucks
Coca-Cola's holiday ad, featuring AI, got mixed feedback. YouTube/@Coca-ColaMarketers embraced AI in 2025.There were also some high-profile AI hiccups in...
6 Comedy Specials to Get You Through the Holidays
Dave Chappelle, ‘The Unstoppable’ (Stream it on Netflix) Dave Chappelle has a theory about what went wrong with America. It...
