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The Children Are Our Future and They Want to Be Chinese
Plus, why ‘The Traitors’ is the best show on TV, the gay tech mafia, Dunkin’ buckets, and more!
River Page
The Weekend Press: The Teenage Stoners of America
Plus: Two drinks with the momfluencer who says night nurses are a ‘narcissistic trend.’ Eli Lake remembers Jesse Jackson’s greatest speech. River Page…
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Can We Stop Trying to Cancel the ’00s?
Plus, why is the internet obsessed with Clavicular? New music from Lana Del Rey. And more!
River Page
Brendan Carr Once Defended Free Speech. Now He Is Trump’s Chief Censor.
Republicans criticized the Biden administration for silencing dissenting voices. Now that they're in power, those First Amendment worries have…
Joe Nocera
Two Drinks with . . . Michael J. Fox
The Hollywood legend is back acting, playing a character that has the disease he’s been dealing with for decades, and tells Joe Nocera: ‘Fuck…
Joe Nocera
The Weekend Press: On ‘Melania,’ and Chugging Milk with RFK Jr.
Plus: Martin Shaw on the myths we need to understand life—and death. River Page needs everyone to calm down about the sexy ice-hockey show. Abigail…
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Odessa A’zion Needs to Stop Listening to the Mob
The ‘Marty Supreme’ actor let insane people on the internet bully her out of playing a half-Mexican character in her next movie, writing: ‘I AGREE WITH…
Suzy Weiss
‘Bridgerton’ Only Pretends to Be Progressive
What if the sexual revolution hadn’t killed courtship? That’s the fantasy that plays out in the raunchy Netflix hit.
Kat Rosenfield
Everyone Needs to Stop Being So Weird About the Gay Hockey Show
‘Heated Rivalry’ is the equivalent of smashing together two Ken dolls: harmless, but also odd.
River Page
How #MeToo Destroyed the Author of ‘13 Reasons Why’
Jay Asher's life was blown up by anonymous comments on a blog post. Now, he is telling his side of the story.
Kat Rosenfield
The Weekend Press: Totalitarianism Can Be Relaxing
Plus: Sascha Seinfeld on the art of six-second comedy. Liel Leibovitz’s hilarious review of an opera about an ICE agent. Abigail Shrier writes to a…
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My Fellow Americans, You Must Watch ‘Pluribus’
We’ve become so comfortable that we’ve forgotten: To be human is not to be perfect, but rather to be broken.
Rod Dreher
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