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What Other Skeletons Are Lurking in Graham Platner’s Closet?
Sexting revelations are the latest in a long line of troublesome details about the Senate candidate’s past. Source link
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Culture
All That Glimmers at Ambassadors Clubhouse
The menu is vast, and somewhat conceptual—dishes are divided, at times, by type (a section for papads and chaat), but then also by size…
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Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard Resists Stagnation
The lyrical direction of this record intrigued me. You are using language and imagery that could be directed toward another person, but it…
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With “Backrooms” and “Obsession,” Hollywood Is Having a Zoomer-Horror Renaissance.
After stumbling upon the Backrooms that first night, Clark returns to them again and again, like a man obsessed. He becomes bent on…
Business
Silicon Valley's humanoid robots are learning how to do your job — in the kitchen
Fernando Flores can spend eight hours a day pouring the same cup of coffee. He is not a barista. He’s a robot puppeteer, trying to train…
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Pope Leo vs. the LinkedIn Hollow Men
How the slop-ridden professional social network confirms Magnifica Humanitas’s warnings about AI’s threat to creativity. Source link
Culture
When the Religious Right Came for Martin Scorsese
In Mary Pratt Kelly’s “Martin Scorsese: A Journey,” the film’s director of photography likens the production to being in a war. Scorsese…
Culture
The Knicks: The Only Game in Town
For Knicks fans, the half century since those two titles has been a prolonged excruciation with intermittent periods of thwarted hope. Ask…
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Why Has Italy Failed to Qualify for Three Straight World Cups?
But, in the game against Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kean, who scored Italy’s only goal, was the sole nonwhite Italian player to take the…
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James Talarico’s Nonbinary Political Campaign
The Senate candidate is now backpedaling on statements about the nature of God, the number of sexes, and more. Source link
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The Cuban Dream Dies by Cuban Hands
Only the revolution’s true believers can still contend with a straight face that the island’s problems have been imposed on them by the…
Culture
In “Hacks,” Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder Gave Us an Odd Couple for the Ages
The depth of Deborah and Ava’s unlikely bond led the show, in its home stretch, to what many viewers considered its best episode. In this…
Business
Another tech company says it will cut hundreds of jobs amid pivot to AI
Layoffs have continued with another tech company saying it was cutting people to enable it to use more artificial intelligence. Groupon…
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“Greater New York” Takes the Pulse of the City
Also: the megawatt hip-hop of Baby Keem, the buzzy period reimaginings of Scottish Ballet, the time-capsule documentary “With Hasan in…
Culture
“Power Ballad,” Reviewed: A Bromantic Conflict Over a Hit Song
Unbeknownst to Rick, the track, a love song, is a phenomenon, with millions of streams. It becomes a No. 1 hit, and everyone—including Aja…
Culture
The Stories That TV Tells About Online Sex Work
Much of the emotional potency of the show’s début season came from Levinson’s canny, perhaps even prescient, channelling of Zoomer…
Business
Waymo launches services with cheaper robotaxis in Los Angeles
Waymo is rolling out a new driverless taxi to help the company expand into more cities and tackle tougher driving conditions, including…
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Protecting Humanness from AI
It is instructive that Pope Leo’s first statement raises concerns about artificial intelligence. Source link
Fashion
How Issa Rae built TikTok’s first micro-drama hit
A brawny bodyguard shoves a bruised man, hands tied behind his back, toward the hood of a black SUV. A pen and a contract lay atop the…
Culture
All the Films in Competition at Cannes 2026, Ranked from Best to Worst
12. “Coward” After winning awards and generating controversy at Cannes for “Girl” (2019) and “Close” (2023), two queer coming-of-age…
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Democrats Need to Learn How to Fight Each Other
They’ve lost the mantle of the party of change because the party is so settled in its identity. Source link
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Data Centers Aren’t the Enemy
The growing animus to these facilities is as irrational as the campaign to stop nuclear power. Source link
Business
Everlane and the Death of the “Good” Millennial Life-Style Brand
In 2017, the clothing brand Everlane opened its first brick-and-mortar store in Nolita. Right down the block from the former location of…
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New York Plays Russian Roulette with Its Fiscal Future
By caving in to public employee unions, the state’s leaders seem determined to follow the road to fiscal hell. Source link