A dud at the box office when it opened 20 years ago this week, The Shawshank Redemption now perenially tops IMDb’s favorite-movies list—the ultimate in “guy cry” cinema. | Continue reading
I may not be able to change my father’s mind, but together, we can vote this toxic administration out of office. | Continue reading
I may not be able to change my father’s mind, but together, we can vote this toxic administration out of office. | Continue reading
Writer Talia Lavin spent about a year catfishing white supremacists online. The result: personal trauma, predictions of a “bloody” election season, and the realization that many extremists aren’t holed up in basements—they’re bit players in our daily lives. | Continue reading
Sudden spikes in the value of bankrupt Hertz and joke cryptocurrency Dogecoin are upending the market as hobbyist traders on Reddit and Robinhood go rogue. “It doesn’t really matter what the underlying value of the stock is,” says one. “If there’s enough momentum behind it, you c … | Continue reading
While reelection is possible, defeat in November could lead to the media disentangling from Trump after his five-plus years of dominating headlines and cable chyrons. Still, says one editor, “I don’t think the Trump show will end either way.” | Continue reading
The president’s recklessness at Walter Reed has Don Jr. pushing for an intervention, but Ivanka and Jared “keep telling Trump how great he’s doing,” a source says. | Continue reading
Attorney General Denise George is looking for more information about Epstein’s infamous jet. | Continue reading
As with Facebook’s COVID and 2020-election initiatives, the social media giant is taking positive steps to promote climate facts and useful information—yet remains wary of removing false posts. | Continue reading
Trump allies at HHS are weighing in on the scientist’s planned interview responses, but Fauci remains unbowed. “No one tells me that I can say and cannot say. I speak on scientific evidence.” | Continue reading
Trump allies at HHS are weighing in on the scientist’s planned interview responses, but Fauci remains unbowed. “No one tells me that I can say and cannot say. I speak on scientific evidence.” | Continue reading
With Sergey Aleynikov in prison for lifting computer code from Goldman Sachs, Michael Lewis convenes a private “jury” to determine what he actually did wrong. | Continue reading
How both the original book and the musical “Oklahoma” reveal the true meaning behind Kaufman’s ambitious film. | Continue reading
To understand the citadel of law enforcement, we must reckon with its unions—which resemble fraternities more than labor unions. | Continue reading
In a series of interviews, the author spoke to Tamika Palmer to paint a picture of a full, loving life taken too soon. | Continue reading
Ta-Nehisi Coates guest-edits a special project about Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter movement, and more. | Continue reading
Inside the network staffers are cringing, and even Trump’s “shadow chief of staff” has his doubts. “If you were hearing what I’m hearing, you’d be vaping too,” Sean Hannity told a colleague during Trump’s early days. | Continue reading
Travis Kalanick is throwing (outdoor) parties, private-jet owners are hopping from safe zone to safe zone, and dinner party hosts are administering 15-minute COVID-19 rapid tests—all business as usual. “Coronavirus is a poor person’s virus,” says one source. | Continue reading
Trump’s favorite young power couple—after Jared and Ivanka and Don Jr. and Kimberly, that is—have carved out a special place in the administration for their rhetoric and ideology. | Continue reading
The East End is bustling, pandemic be damned, with waits for hot restaurants, Tracy Anderson workouts, and Botox. The überwealthy are even snagging second or third homes for COVID-free “compounding.” | Continue reading
These powerful tales of terror and the macabre are part of a cultural exorcism centuries in the making. | Continue reading
This spring, a team working under the president's son-in-law produced a plan for an aggressive, coordinated national COVID-19 response that could have brought the pandemic under control. So why did the White House spike it in favor of a shambolic 50-state response? | Continue reading
This spring, a team working under the president's son-in-law produced a plan for an aggressive, coordinated national COVID-19 response that could have brought the pandemic under control. So why did the White House spike it in favor of a shambolic 50-state response? | Continue reading
Reporters and editors are pressing management on newsroom diversity, coverage of race and inequality, and the accuracy of Opinion pieces—including Mike Pence’s recent contribution. As one predicts, “this is not the end.” | Continue reading
Reporters and editors are pressing management on newsroom diversity, coverage of race and inequality, and the accuracy of Opinion pieces—including Mike Pence’s recent contribution. As one predicts, “this is not the end.” | Continue reading
When the auto king fled house arrest, he captivated the world. Now, the guy who helped him is in jail—and never got paid a dime. | Continue reading
Ben Schwartz recalls the affairs, brawls, and scandals that marked Arno’s audacious reign. | Continue reading
The world’s most wanted war criminal was captured in France last month. Now, former American officials break their silence about how their own mission went awry. | Continue reading
A Q&A with the comedian, who’s grilling cultural lightning rods like Alison Roman and Caroline Calloway on her Instagram Live show. | Continue reading
A-list actors worked in quarantine to create a homemade version of the classic film, raising $1 million for charity. | Continue reading
When Theresa Duncan, 40, took her own life on July 10, followed a week later by her boyfriend, Jeremy Blake, 35, their friends were stunned and the press was fascinated: what had destroyed this glamorous couple, stars of New York’s multi-media art world, still madly in love after … | Continue reading
A-list actors worked in quarantine to create a homemade version of the classic film, raising $1 million for charity. | Continue reading
Facebook's former head of advertising doesn't think the company should change its controversial ad policy—even if it will enable Trump. | Continue reading
Trump’s own words to Xi Jinping, among others, were so damning and politicized that the government insisted they be removed. | Continue reading
With the value of maple syrup at roughly $1,300 a barrel, it’s time everyone knew about FPAQ, the Canadian group that controls 72 percent of the world’s supply. | Continue reading
With reporters in harm’s way covering the protests, Cotton’s op-ed “pours gasoline on the fire,” in an escalation in the series of conflicts between James Bennet’s Opinion department and the newsroom. | Continue reading
Former Gawker staffers, led by Max Read and Cord Jefferson, are now developing scripts about the site’s glory days skewering the powerful. | Continue reading
Former Gawker staffers, led by Max Read and Cord Jefferson, are now developing scripts about the site’s glory days skewering the powerful. | Continue reading
Netflix will probe that question in the four-part docuseries Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, premiering May 27. | Continue reading
There’s compelling evidence that Japan, Hong Kong, and other East Asian locales are doing it right and we should really, truly mask up—fast. | Continue reading
There’s compelling evidence that Japan, Hong Kong, and other East Asian locales are doing it right and we should really, truly mask up—fast. | Continue reading
Twitter’s CEO, last of the Steve Jobs-like tech-founder demigods, was on the verge of being pushed out by private-equity investors. But his will, and wiles—and COVID-19—gave him new purpose. For now. | Continue reading
Feuding royals. A deadly planet. Before Star Wars or Game of Thrones, there was this legendary story. | Continue reading
A Wuhan biosafety laboratory, bat blood, a wet market, scientists, pangolins, politicians looking for someone to blame: the perfect ingredients for a story that won’t go away. | Continue reading
It’s terrifying to think that the Trump administration is simply winging it, in a swirl of lies, contradictions, and Twitter rants. A scarier possibility is that there is, in fact, a plan, taken straight from Putin 101. | Continue reading
As COVID-19 bears down, a spontaneous alliance of techies and health professionals in the city formerly known as Pablo Escobar’s hometown is making promising progress on an urgent medical problem. | Continue reading
Private equity has made multibillionaires of executives like Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman (net worth: $17.5 billion) and Apollo’s Leon Black ($7.5 billion). Thanks to the $2 trillion bipartisan bailout bill, the industry’s coronavirus losses will belong to all of us. | Continue reading