All Posts (5,293)
Samantha Irby Knows How to Be Funny
The New Yorker,
A conversation with the acclaimed comic and essayist about humor as a coping strategy, her work on the divisive “Sex and the City” reboot, and the future of comedy.
“Hell’s Kitchen” Brings Alicia Keys’s Musical Power to the Public
The R. & B. titan shares a fictionalized version of her coming of age.
All the Newspapers’ Men
In Martin Baron’s “Collision of Power” and Adam Nagourney’s “The Times,” two well-known journalists turn their investigative power on their institutions—and themselves.
House GOP's Biden impeachment effort heads into final stage
Politico,
The conference plans to depose Hunter Biden in December and is working to tie up other threads before January — when advocates hope they can start moving toward a vote.
How Uyghur Forced Labor Makes Seafood That Ends Up in School Lunches
Politico Picks,
Uyghurs and North Koreans are forced to work in Chinese seafood processing plants. But the federal government purchases millions of dollars of this seafood for the military and school lunches.
Hamas Is Not ISIS — and the Comparison Itself Is Counterproductive
Pretending the two terrorist groups are the same will only make it harder to protect Israel and end the war.
Food aid for low-income mothers, babies becomes spending flashpoint
Advocates and state administrators fear they may have to begin putting people on waitlists to receive WIC benefits if Congress doesn't increase funding in January.
A Murder At The End Of The World recap: For Darby Hart, the game is finally afoot
AV Club,
The game is finally afoot At The End Of The World, with writers Brit Marling, Zal Batmanglij, and Melanie Marnich focusing on the mystery at hand rather than the one in Darby’s book. Filling in gaps is undoubtedly essential to this story, but the dual narrative was exhausting in those exposition-filled openers.… Read more...