What Mitch McConnell Did

Source: YouTube Summary On the first Saturday of every August, the Saint Jerome Catholic Church in the tiny town of Fancy Farm, Kentucky, hosts a picnic renowned for its mutton-and-pork…

The Human-Origin Story Is Being Radically Revised

Some 50,000 years ago, modern humans wandered into Ice Age Europe. The continent was new to us Homo sapiens, but not for beings of our general kind. Neanderthals and their…

A Culture War in the Bedroom

In the new film I Want Your Sex, characters are action figures in a staging of generational war. On one side is Gen Z, its members portrayed as anxious little…

Hard-Luck Men in Hardscrabble Towns

“I’m the first writer in the family,” the novelist Richard Russo once said, “but I’m not the first bullshitter in the family.” That honor belonged to his divorced father, Jim,…

How Trump’s Priorities May Impact the Midterms

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Trump’s Déjà-Vu Moment on Birthright Citizenship

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Sadism and a Blue Bunny

Children are made for love. From the moment they are born, they rely on their caregivers for everything they need, and they need a great deal: warmth, nourishment, grooming, contact.…

The Case for Calling People on the Phone

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The Internet Is in Crisis

Almost 20 years ago, I had tickets to see Amy Winehouse perform in London, at a show that was canceled just an hour before it was scheduled to start. A…

Pop Culture Has Its Teeth in You

In their fledgling but fascinating career thus far, the director Jane Schoenbrun has been consumed by the pop culture that consumes us. They’ve already proved to be an urgent voice…