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As TSA Chaos Spreads, Some Airports Have Solved the Security-Screening Problem
Unsurprisingly, the private sector gets the job done. Source link
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The New York Times’ Love Affair with China
Reflexively favorable coverage for communist regimes has been the Gray Lady’s default for a century now. Source link
Culture
How Bad Is Plagiarism, Really?
From ancient Rome to the era of A.I., people have prized originality, but the line where influence ends and cribbing begins is notoriously…
Culture
New York’s Finest Sandwich
The alchemy of any given sandwich is both specific and forgiving. Its stacked ingredients merge and mingle—you can swap out this or that,…
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A Good Day’s Work for Grandma Moses and the Smithsonian
Its American art museum interprets a Yankee original, keeping woke hysterics to a minimum. Source link
Fashion
Sofia Coppola Stays in the Shallow End with the New Marc Jacobs Documentary
In the show notes handed to audience members at Marc Jacobs’s Fall/Winter 2026 presentation, at New York’s Park Avenue Armory in early…
Culture
China’s Shifting Relationship to the Countryside
Most of the way up the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, which rises to a height of more than eighteen thousand feet, in southwestern China’s…
Culture
My Parents Were Both Dying. Then I Found Out I Had Cancer
Everything took on a sickening poignancy: the boisterous din at our Saturday brunch place where, just a week before, my girlfriends and I…
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“Two Prosecutors,” “Palestine ’36,” and the Tribulations of Resistance in the Thirties
By the time Kornev is finally ushered into the cell of Stepniak (a mesmerizing Aleksandr Filippenko), there’s no sense of triumph or even…
Culture
Remembering Calvin Tomkins, a Master of the Profile
Until the very end, our friend and colleague Calvin Tomkins looked at his life with a sense of wonder and wry amusement. He died on Friday…
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The Israel Hoax
The isolationist right is convinced that President Trump is waging the Iran War on Israel’s behalf. Source link
Culture
“DTF St. Louis” Peers Into the Suburban Male Psyche
Starting in 2017, Bateman played Marty Byrde, an accountant turned cash launderer for a ruthless Mexican cartel, in “Ozark,” arguably his…
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Pentagon's Anthropic bashing rekindles Silicon Valley's resistance to war
Artificial intelligence powerhouse Anthropic’s battle with the Pentagon has sparked some soul-searching in Silicon Valley that could…
Culture
Why Can’t You Finish Anything?
One obvious way to finish things is to seek out an external structure. It’s true that my book is overdue—and yet, being overdue is…
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An Elegy for the Kennedy Center
Tempting as it is to blame Trump for the Kennedy Center’s fate, he does not bear sole responsibility. The idea of a national arts center…
News
The Pre-War World Is Gone
So far, the data do not suggest that Republicans lack the stomach for challenging the status quo in the Middle East. Source link
News
The Fed in a Fog of Uncertainty
If ever we needed an independent Fed to navigate us through troubled waters, it has to be now. Source link
Culture
“Judy Blume: A Life” and the Problem of Biography
When Blume started writing, the market category of young-adult (as opposed to children’s) literature was defined by politically motivated…
Culture
In the Age of A.I., What Is Taste? And Do We Still Have It?
With artificial intelligence continuing to dominate corporate strategies and news headlines, Silicon Valley has embraced a new buzzword,…
Business
SoCal's defense startups secure vital funding boost
A bill restoring crucial federal funding to defense startups in Southern California is on its way to the president’s desk after making it…
Fashion
AI pilot program in L.A. County courts will help judges craft rulings in some cases
Judges in one of the nation’s largest court systems have started using artificial intelligence, testing a tool that can rapidly distill…