Dolly Parton is one of the most ubiquitous celebrities in the world. She’s also one of the most enigmatic. As fans learned from last year’s Dolly Parton’s America podcast, there are always new things to learn about the beloved...
It’s just after dawn on a Saturday. From a couch in San Diego, my 13-year-old Facetimes with his best friend in Bend, Oregon. My 9-year-old video chats with a buddy in Santa Cruz; that kid shares his screen of...
Performance aside, the game, as a whole, is just OK. While some people do quite like it, Night City gets same-y. Combat is whatever. But that wasn’t the point. The point was the great dissonance between built-up expectations and...
“Cheaters never lose, and losers never cheat.”This is the demented advice that mega-rich tech CEO Duncan Park (Billy Magnussen) gives his teenage daughter at the end of the second episode of The Audacity, the lacerating new AMC series about...
Early in his testimony for Epic Games v. Apple on Friday, Apple CEO Tim Cook described his company’s mission: “To make the best products in the world that really enrich people’s lives.” For the rest of the day, Epic’s...
The first trailer for Dune begins much like the book on which it’s based: with Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) revealing he has dreams that often come true. “Do you often dream things that happen, just as you dreamed them?”...
Melinda Snodgrass got the idea for her science fiction novel The High Ground when she started thinking about how awful human beings can be.
“I had a sudden vision of this nine-foot-tall alien ant-like creature with mandibles and claws—just a...
In 2014, Riot Games' then-executive assistant Melanie McCracken began to notice that her supervisor, Jin Oh, didn’t seem to hire women into senior leadership vacancies. Women were generally brought on as assistants, she said in a 2018 civil complaint...
Self-quantifiers often get stereotyped as obsessive self-optimizers (and many of them are), but my reasons for producing and collecting personal data were less about life-maxxing and more about life meaning—at least at first. As most people who know me...
As this year’s Oscar nominations rolled out this morning, I told my boyfriend that Sinners, with 16 noms in total, had made history. “Woke is back,” he replied.He was joking (don’t come for him!), but his quip highlights a...
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