King Charles’s cancer and the future
The greatest threat to its survival will come from within
Society
Sunday
The depressed press
Polls say trust in media is at an all-time low. But a better reflection than that can be found in what’s happening in the journalism business
The age of mass revenge
While this cycle of resentment, revenge and reaction is nothing new under the sun, its ubiquity seems historically unprecedented
Monday
Environmentalism: from concern about clean air to throwing soup at the Mona Lisa
Among history’s many bad ideas, Garrett Hardin’s ‘tragedy of the commons’ should rank high on the list
Sunday
Inside Bannon and Burra’s post-CPAC blowout
Mixing with MAGA in the War Room
Friday
Could AI ruin the election?
The detection systems to separate real footage from AI-generated are completely losing the arms race
Thursday
‘Maybe I have the healing I need’: speaking to Father Paul Wierichs
The former FBI chaplain ministered to the dead and dying on 9/11. Terminal cancer means his time is coming, too
Why the luxury life feels alien
When I emerged onto Twitter in 2015, I felt like I was driving a jalopy on a freeway filled with Teslas
How Covid amnesia spread through the right and left
Four years into ‘two weeks to stop the spread,’ the main characters of the pandemic have taken to revisionism
My friends keep dumping me
It’s not a conscious or cruel dumping — it’s the dump of indifference
The digital habit
The vast majority of people neither living in what they call ‘real time’ nor experiencing life and the world itself at first hand
Tuesday
WATCH: Jon Stewart jabs at Biden and Trump’s age in Daily Show return
‘How do you go on TikTok and end up looking older?’
Friday
Vladimir Putin’s night at the Tucker Carlson circus
The full interview Carlson released on his website and on Elon Musk’s X was received primarily with a yawn
Thursday
The biggest overreactions to Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview that no one has seen yet
Neoliberals and neocons want him sanctioned or banned from the US
Tuesday
E. Jean Carroll’s victory lap
‘First thing Rachel, you and I are going to go shopping’
Tuesday
Is Courier Newsroom really fighting fake news?
Journalists who have worked at Tara McGowan’s news outlet say the ideals it publicly professes are a far cry from reality
The tech I’m looking forward to in 2024
Premium screens, standout laptops and AI will be huge this year
Why have parties suddenly gotten good?
Even an old grump like me has been having a good time
Friday
Axios bravely points out Covid hurt Trump’s economy
‘Trump’s economic record is only good if you leave off what happened from March 2020 to the end of his administration’
Wednesday
Is the New York Times’s Gaza mayor op-ed worth condemning?
‘Pro-free speech’ outlets on the right are making ‘platforming’ arguments
