Is Amazon’s newest competitor a Trojan horse for China?
Given what happened with TikTok and Huawei, it sure looks like it
Giorgia Meloni is no springtime for Italian fascism
Italy’s new populist leader is a symptom of European ills
Maren Morris should transition to pop where she belongs
There’s no room for cancel culture in country music
How two deaths shook Iran to its core
Mahsa Amini and the ailing Supreme Leader reveal a regime headed for crisis
The Republican ‘Commitment to America’ feels like a Hail Mary
Unlike Newt Gingrich’s Contract, the rollout was botched and the policies are vague
Brace yourself for a coup in Brazil
Bolsonaro is said to have been sounding out an appetite for autocracy
Hilary Mantel — a death before her time
English literature has been robbed of one of its most fascinating voices
Cockburn’s guide to messaging women online
It’s too late for Adam Levine, but you still have time
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Scarface lands on post-woke Netflix
Subscribers are finally getting better content — along with a healthy dose of toxic masculinity
Bob Dylan, the song and dance man
A new biography captures his entire world
Ken Burns’s angry new film
The director acknowledges ‘The US and the Holocaust’ was inspired by America First
Beyoncé’s new album kind of sucks
Sales plummeted after the first week of its release
From the magazine
Why I’ll never make it in stand-up
It’s the hardest, most unforgiving performance medium on the planet
The trouble with Tavistock
Abuse is heaped on anyone who has questioned the trend toward carelessness in youth gender medicine
The time trap of Irma Vep
The HBO Max miniseries shows a rare interest in the present moment
Is the right about to backslide on gay rights?
It’s been dismaying to see anti-gay sentiment bubbling up
A hazy afternoon with Bill Maher
‘The young people are the prudes and don’t find anything funny’
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