CATEGORIES

BUCKS WITHOUT BORDERS

In the geography of the rich and mobile, sovereignty is for sale.

AMERICAN REFRAINS

“Hold On to Me Darling,” Our Town,” and Sump’n Like Wings.”

POP CULTURE

How dirty soda became a Utah delicacy.

GIG ECONOMY

The decline of the working musician.

THE IMPRESARIO

Alvin Ailey’ crusade to build a home for himself and other Black dancers.

MY CAMP

Human nature, yes. Nature nature, no. I know nothing about it.

AMERICAN ATTITUDE

The docuseries Mr. McMahon” explores the underbelly of the WWE.

COWBOY-DANCE FUTURE WORLD

It t is the year 2248. We live in what some would call a perfect world.

ORIGIN STORY

Ta-Nehisi Coates and the temptations of narrative.

TWERKERS' COMP

Earlier this year, the Cannes Film Festival observed a heroic first: the director who won the Palme d'Or, the event's highest honor, dedicated the prize to \"all sex workers, past, present, and future.\"

PRISON DIARIES

The Russian opposition leader’ account of his last years and his admonition to his country and the world.

Theater - Artificial Theatrics - Ayad Akhtar's play about AI is missing a human touch.

Here's an ai prompt: Write me a vehicle for a movie star intent on making a debut on Broadway. Let's say he's a veteran of superhero flicks, so we want a character akin to his persona and a subject that comes with some contemporary relevance; maybe, because he played a tech genius onscreen, we have him wrestle with the vanguard of technology onstage. He's also acclaimed as a dramatic actor, so let's throw in a few hefty themes: addiction, suicide, adultery, trauma, and, for that genuine flawed great man zing, a pinch of misogyny.

Silicon Valley's Influence Game - From crypto to A.I., tech titans are pouring money into super PACS to savage their political opponents.

One morning in February, Katie Porter was sitting in bed, futzing around on her computer, when she learned that she was the target of a vast techno-political conspiracy. For the past five years, Porter had served in the House of Representatives on behalf of Orange County, California. She’d become famous—at least, C-span and MSNBC famous—for her eviscerations of business tycoons, often aided by a whiteboard that she used to make camera- friendly presentations about corporate greed. Now she was in a highly competitive race to replace the California senator Dianne Feinstein, who had died a few months earlier. The primary was in three weeks.

The K-Pop King - Chairman Bang is bringing his formula for creating idols to the U.S.

Scooter Braun was in a tailspin. It was February, 2021, and the music manager, who had made his name launching the careers of Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, was nearing forty and facing a brutal divorce. An equally nasty battle with Taylor Swift, over his ownership of her song catalogue, had sullied his public image. Rumors circulated that the future of Braun’s company, Ithaca Holdings, was in doubt. Amid this tumult, he was surprised to receive an invitation to speak with someone who had long fascinated him: the South Korean producer Bang Si-hyuk—known to admirers as Hitman Bang.

WHEN THE ICE MELTS

What the fate of the Arctic means for the rest of the Earth.

IT TAKES A VILLAGE

The exuberant, complicating drawings of the Shakers.

SLEEP ESSENTIAL FOR HEALTH

To achieve good health, you must maintain a regular sleep schedule, and be able to get back to sleep once you are awake.

DOWNWARD SPIRALS

Missy Mazzoli's \"The Listeners\" and Jeanine Tesori's \"Grounded.\"

TAKE TWO

\"The Hills of California\" and \"Yellow Face\" come to Broadway.

THE LONG CON

Rachel Kushner's anti-spy, anti-realism novel.

THE SIGHTED WORLD

Growing up with the writer Ved Mehta.

IF MEMORY SERVES

John Lewis knew how to put a legacy of heroism.

QUARTET ISLAND

Mendelssohn on Mull celebrates chamber music away from urban pressures.

WELL, WELL, WELL

Eating—and not-in the epicenter of hype diets.

FIX YOU

The self-help positivity of Coldplay.

THE CHIT-CHATBOT

Is talking with a machine a conversation?

THE WORKER REVOLT

Harris and Walz try to stop blue-collar Americans from drifting to Trump.

ILLUMINATIONS

Suzanne Jackson captures the transformative power of light.

RAT PACK

The classic rodent studies that foretold a nightmarish human future.

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

At the 1940 Republican National Convention, in Philadelphia, an uneasy affair marked by bomb scares, a British espionage scandal, and the imminence of global conflict, ten names were placed in nomination.