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Trump’s Cabinet has joined TikTok, but the White House is about to learn that controlling the platform isn’t the same…
Johnny Knoxville, America’s God of Mischief
Johnny Knoxville, the star of “Jackass,” has spent decades risking his life for our entertainment. In his latest film, “Jackess:…
The Sunlit Joylessness of Netflix’s “Little House on the Prairie”
Sarah Larson on a new, Netflix adaptation of “Little House on the Prarie,” the American-frontier-set series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Charli XCX and the Strokes Are (Sort of) Making Rock Music
Amanda Petrusich writes about the two artists’ new albums—“Music, Fashion, Film” and “Reality Awaits”—which seesaw between raw sincerity and punkish…
The Kids Are Kind of All Right
Recently, there has been much hand-wringing about downwardly mobile young adults living with their parents into their twenties or thirties.…
Bari Weiss Is On It
Chris Kelly humorously imagines Bari Weiss, the editor-in-chief of CBS News, revamping the Hoover Dam, the Toyota Corolla, and more.
The Kids Are Kind of Alright
Recently, there has been much hand-wringing about downwardly mobile young adults living with their parents into their twenties or thirties.…
Trump’s Isolationism Is Losing the Great E.V. Race
Bill McKibben writes that, under President Donald Trump, the U.S. is forfeiting a role in advancing electric-vehicle technology, while China…
A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns—Then the N.R.A. Came to Collect
The majority of suicides in the U.S. involve guns, and eighty per cent of those are done by white men,…
How Bots Took Over Our Lives
During the 2016 election, much of the country was introduced to the concept of internet bots for the first time.…