Editor’s note, December 25, 8 am ET: This story is being republished for the holiday season. It was originally published in 2020. It might seem unbelievable given that the “Christmas creep” now begins before Halloween, but the true Christmas season actually starts on Christmas Day itself. That’s right: December 25 marks the official start of […] Read more ›
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Getty Images/fStopWhether it’s your own or someone else’s. In 2020, Dave Venus couldn’t catch a break. First, he got sick with a mysterious illness that caused him constant fatigue. Then, a week before his wife, Claire, gave birth to their daughter, both of them got Covid-19. Dave couldn’t be in the delivery room. After the birth, while Claire made every effort to recover and care for the newborn, Dave was... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden (right) stands on the GMC Hummer EV production line as he tours the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit, Michigan, on November 17, 2021. | Magdel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesWhat supply-side liberals can learn from the past These days, political leaders and commentators talk often about “industrial policy” and stimulating supply in the economy, rather than just demand. Whether it’s to spur new... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden arrives to speak about his Bidenomics agenda at Tioga Marine Terminal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty ImagesFor these families, the last few years’ economic tumult has been particularly pronounced. Of all the difficult questions Democrats face ahead of 2024, two storylines are particularly confounding. The first is the economy: Most Americans are still pretty pissed about its state, even though economists can... Read more ›
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US President Joe Biden, right, and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrive during a news conference in the Indian Treaty Room on the White House complex, in Washington, DC, on December 12, 2023. | Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesShould Congress fail to extend aid to Ukraine, it would “change the character of the war.” For nearly two years, Ukraine has fought back against Russia’s invasion far more effectively and successfully than... Read more ›
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Migrants attempting to cross into the United States from Mexico are detained at the border by US Customs and Border Protection on December 14, 2023, in Jacumba Hot Springs, California. | Nick Ut/Getty ImagesThe White House is reportedly open to making concessions to Republicans in its negotiations over aid to Ukraine and Israel that go far beyond border security. It’s hard to overstate the potential destructiveness of the sweeping changes... Read more ›
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American Fiction and Perfect Days are two standouts on the fall festival circuit. | Toronto International Film FestivalIt’s a great time to be at the movies. Every fall brings its crop of new movies from around the world — comedies, dramas, documentaries, and more uncategorizable films that capture what it is to live in this historical moment. Audiences around the world get to see them at festivals first, whether they’re... Read more ›
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Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) after a romp with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo). | Searchlight PicturesIn Poor Things, Oppenheimer, Passages, and more, sex on screen drove the plot. Earlier this year a TikToker posted a video explaining how she and her husband “prepared” themselves for the sex scenes in Oppenheimer featuring Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh. The influencer described how her husband would close his eyes every time there was nudity... Read more ›
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Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things. | Atsushi Nishijima via Searchlight PicturesStone reunites with The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos for a lovable movie from one of our prickliest filmmakers. Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos is famous for making strange and chilly movies: 2016’s eerie dramedy The Lobster; 2018’s The Favourite, a cynical comedy; movies about power games and humans hurting each other and brutal, unforgiving worlds, shot through with... Read more ›
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Ellen Weinstein for VoxBradley Cooper’s turn as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro is just the latest role to stoke conversations about what Jewish representation means in Hollywood. When the first images of Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic schnoz — the honking appendage he wears to play conductor Leonard Bernstein in Maestro — made their internet debut a few months ago, hot takes abounded: The Nose was antisemitic! The Nose was not antisemitic! Anyone... Read more ›
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A peaceful scene from The Zone of Interest, the year’s best horror film. | A24Jonathan Glazer’s new film dismantles simple cliches about the banality of evil. The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s first film in 10 years, is ostensibly based on a book: Martin Amis’s stomach-churning 2014 novel of the same name. But understanding the movie’s formal and thematic genius requires looking at it differently: as a sidelong horror-film adaptation... Read more ›
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Jeffrey Wright as Monk in American Fiction. | Claire Folger © 2023 Orion Releasing LLCJeffrey Wright gives a career-crowning performance in this wry and surprisingly warm-hearted race satire. Early on in American Fiction, a deceptively biting and warmly funny new satire, a writer (played by Jeffrey Wright in a career-crowning performance) sneaks into a book fair event celebrating the hot new book of the season. His eyebrows arch at the... Read more ›
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A kinder, gentler Wonka (Timothée Chalet, center). | Warner Bros.A director, a worldview, a vibe, and a love of cute hats. At this point, the Paddington movies are a universally beloved internet phenomenon, adored by children and adults alike. (Well, I don’t know tons of kids who are as obsessed with Paddington as some adults I know, but let’s just go with it.) Back when the first Paddington was gearing... Read more ›
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Batman and Catwoman want you both to know that eating mistletoe is a poison risk. | Warner Bros. Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty ImagesTim Burton’s superhero classic is Christmas rom-com you don’t realize is a Christmas movie or a rom-com. While the winner of Best Christmas Movie is up for debate, the undisputed best Christmas movie genre isn’t: It’s Christmas romantic comedies. And in this exceptional genre — which includes the... Read more ›
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Cattle at the Texana Feeders feedlot in Floresville, Texas. | Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesMeat production is making lifesaving drugs less effective. Where’s the FDA? The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) knew that America’s meat industry had a drug problem. For decades, evidence had amassed that the widespread use of antibiotics to make livestock grow faster — and survive the crowded, unsanitary conditions of factory farms — was causing... Read more ›
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Claudine Gay, president of Harvard University; Liz Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania; Pamela Nadell, professor of history and Jewish studies at American University; and Sally Kornbluth, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, testify before the House Education and Workforce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 5, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesA simple question about genocide at a congressional hearing obscured a complicated... Read more ›
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal, neuroscientist and artist who shared the 1906 Nobel Prize in medicine with Camillo Golgi. | Universal Images Group via GettyQuantifying the “complexity” of consciousness can tell us how rich our experiences are. Sometimes when I’m looking out across the northern meadow of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, or even the concrete parking lot outside my office window, I wonder if someone like Shakespeare or Emily Dickinson could have... Read more ›
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Trump holds a rally at Ted Hendricks Stadium in Hialeah, Florida, on November 8, 2023. | Alon Skuy/Getty ImagesDemocracy is a culture — and Trump is destroying it. In the long arc of human history, the modern democratic era is a mere blip. Humans first began residing in city-like agricultural settlements about 10,000 years ago. The American and French revolutions, widely seen as the dawn of the democratic age, took... Read more ›
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It’s not just you. Credit scores are confusing as hell. When credit scores were invented just a few decades ago, they were hailed as a way to democratize lending. Today, they’ve become so essential that not having one can lock you out of daily life. Having a low score can make life challenging, too. These scores have a long history — and a lot of problems. In this video, we’ll... Read more ›
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United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield makes a speech at the UN General Assembly in New York, which overwhelmingly adopted a draft resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza on December 12, 2023. | Fatih Aktas/Anadolu/Getty ImagesWhy the US and Israel are becoming “increasingly isolated.” The international community is increasingly turning against Israel’s ongoing military onslaught in Gaza, in large part due to a growing civilian... Read more ›
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Former President Donald Trump with Justice Clarence Thomas. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesTrump claims that when the president tries to steal an election, it’s not illegal. In 1970, then-President Richard Nixon briefly authorized an illegal plan to spy on left-wing activists within the United States. His defense is rarely quoted except as an example of presidential villainy. “When the president does it,” Nixon told journalist David Frost in 1977,... Read more ›
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