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After receiving backlash for its partnership with trans actor and social media star Dylan Mulvaney, Budweiser has released a new patriotic ad featuring its signature Clydesdale horse mascot
KING ME
Charles tried to be a philosopher-prince. But a British monarch must keep quiet
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
When Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News last week—so suddenly that he reportedly learned about it only ten minutes before the world did— the most acute notes of regret came from young conservative intellectuals who had seen his nightly hour of programming as an interesting, and perhaps essential, experiment in what right-wing populism could be
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
Karl Lagerfeld, who died in 2019, once said, “I am very much down to earth. Just not this earth.” During his seven-decade career, Lagerfeld designed heavenly collections for Balmain, Chloé, Fendi, Patou, his eponymous label, and, perhaps most famously, for Chanel, whose Fall/Winter 2014-15 haute-couture runway featured the opulent coat pictured here. Starting May 5, it joins some hundred and fifty garments on view in the exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,” at the Met’s Costume Institute
Zonked
The exhausting history of fatigue.
The Language Game
Luis von Ahn turned Duolingo into the world's most popular education app. How much can it teach us?
Brokeback Mountain in Manhattan
Shouts & Murmurs
PARENT TRAPS
“Beau Is Afraid” and “Everything Went Fine.”
GUIDING LIGHT
“Regretfully, So the Birds Are” and “White Girl in Danger.”
WALK THE LINE
In Dennis Lehane’s “Small Mercies,” the Boston busing protests are murder.
HIGH ACHIEVERS
How taking drugs changed the science of the self.
INSPIRATION, INC.
How “creativity” was created.
THE GREAT INTERRUPTION
What was the English Revolution about, anyway?
THE STUNTMAN
At a certain point in his career, the artist D, perhaps because he could find no other way to make sense of his time and place in history, began to paint upside down. This is how I imagine it.
SECURITY BREACH
Criminals presumed that a new kind of phone network couldn’t be infiltrated by cops. Big mistake.
THE CRUNCH BUNCH
How Taco Bell fired the first shot in the stunt-food wars.
FERTILE GROUND
The biotech startups that want to revolutionize human reproduction.
A Reporter at Large - The Bunker
A covert operation to solve the murder of one of Mexico's bravest investigative journalists.
Fiction – Alisa Lyudmila Ulitskaya
By the time life was brought to perfection, old age had arrived. The last costly touch was a small bathtub, installed after a lot of reflection and searching.
Crossover Artist
A neuroscientist and musician unites his two passions.
Blasted
The I.R.A., the Brits, and a bomb that shook the nations.
THE CURRENT CINEMA - TREAD SOFTLY
\"Air\" and \"Paint.\"
ON TELEVISION - HELL ON WHEELS
\"Beef,\" on Netflix.
THE THEATRE - CORN COUNTRY
\"Shucked\" premières on Broadway.
MUSICAL EVENTS - DE MINIMIS
Max Richter's doleful arpeggios, and Cassandra Miller's piercing lament.
POP MUSIC - AMAZING GRACE
The other worldly compositions of an Ethiopian nun.
ODDBALLS AND ODYSSEYS
The road trips, revenge plots, and secret societies of Charles Portis.
EVENSONG
This is not an account of a love affair, and it is not the story of a religious conversion, although elements of both pertain. Of course, in life, which is full of surprises, it is hard to know what anything is.
AMERICAN CHRONICLES - FAMILY VALUES
How a mother's love for her gay son started a revolution.
ANNALS OF GASTRONOMY - SPECIAL SAUCE
The Slutty Vegan burger chain puts the party in plant-based eating.