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  • March 12, 2025
    Do you remember when studio albums told stories? When you bought a CD and listened to every song on it, in order? There was no shuffle, and if you wanted to make a playlist you had...
  • February 20, 2025
    Yesterday morning, like I do every morning, I woke up and immediately opened Twitter (a.k.a. X), where the first thing I saw was Elon Musk reacting positively to a post...
  • February 13, 2025
    Just a week after trotting his clearly uncomfortable wife onto the Grammys’ red carpet in a completely see-through dress, rapper Kanye West went on an unhinged antisemitic...
  • January 28, 2025
    Last week, the nominees for the 2025 Academy Awards were announced. The leading contender with 13 total nominations? Emilia Pérez, a French-produced Spanish-language...
  • January 16, 2025
    American lawmakers are about to determine the future of pornography, or they’re trying, at least. In recent years, 19 states—most of them Republican-led—have...
  • January 8, 2025
    You’re not supposed to inhale the smoke from cigars. Some have up to 25 times more nicotine than a single cigarette. But that’s what I was doing with the ones that were...
  • January 1, 2025
    A rift in the MAGA coalition emerged last week as Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk—co-chairs of DOGE, a Trump advisory committee—advocated for more H-1B...