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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The Sexism Is Getting Sneakier
Is Elizabeth Warren overly “angry”? The media are just asking questions.
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Larnce Gold / Getty Two Tales of Booing. Two Very Different Views.
Harvey Weinstein’s detractors were told to “shut up.” Donald Trump’s hecklers were dismissed as “un-American.” What are the men’s defenders so afraid of?
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Mike Coppola ‘I Know People Want a Richer, More Thoughtful Explanation’
The New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet discusses a controversial headline decision and why the paper’s editorial process needs to change.
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Bettmann / Contributor Why Ebony Magazine’s Archives Were Saved
The famed chronicler of black American life commissioned some of the most important photos in history—and they were almost lost to the public.
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Johnny Green / PA / Getty I, Too, Have Dressed Up as a Chicken to Harass British Politicians
It’s part of a tabloid tradition that doesn’t take itself too seriously—one that not only reports the news, but also makes people laugh.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Netflix’s U.S. Subscriber Numbers Are Slipping
The company is seeing a dip in its American growth for the first time since 2011. What does that mean for the streaming service?
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NBC / Everett Collection HBO Max’s Golden Ticket
The details of the newly announced mega-service are murky, but it has one huge advantage over Netflix: the streaming rights to Friends.
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Glyn Kirk / AFP / Getty The Very British Tradition of ‘Verbal Cartooning’
A centuries-old British newspaper tradition continues to find humor in the politically mundane and provide commentary in the era of Brexit.
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Lucy Jones How the Memory of Stonewall Lives On in a Meme
The question “Who threw the first brick?” has become a way to celebrate gay icons and to inject joy into a sobering historical moment.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters What Gets Lost When Polls Become the Story
As the 2020 presidential-election season gets under way, many journalists are reflecting on how not to make the same mistakes from the last cycle.
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Craig Ruttle / AP The Cruel Paradox at the Heart of E. Jean Carroll’s Allegation Against Trump
The famous writer’s rape accusation against the president fell victim to the familiar workings of attention fatigue.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Sarah Sanders Broke the News
The press secretary for the Trump White House, who announced her resignation today, used her pulpit to spread the gospel of winning.
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Paul Morigi / Getty Revisionism Is Winning in American Politics
Joe Biden wants to move on. Mark Halperin wants to come back. Donald Trump is Donald Trump. They’re all missing the point of true reckonings.
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Colin Anderson / Alex Wong / Getty / ... Americans Can’t Stop Mythologizing Robert Mueller
Batman. Superman. Boyfriend. Savior. While the special counsel has conducted a notably quiet investigation, Americans have filled in the blanks.
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Chicago Police Department / Reuters Jussie Smollett’s Alleged Hoax Will Feed Bigger Hoaxes
If the actor faked a hate crime, he provided fuel for bigoted conspiracy theories. But so does the discourse around his case.
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Burger King Andy Warhol’s Meta and Morbid Message Haunted the Super Bowl Ads
In the future, everyone will have 15 minutes of selling fast food from beyond the grave.
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Richard Howard / The LIFE Images Collection / ... Russell Baker: ‘When Writing Is Fun, It’s Not Very Good’
Falling potatoes, reading lists, and humor critiques: a wide-ranging conversation with the legendary New York Times columnist, who died this week at 93
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The White House / Arsh Raziuddin / The ... The President’s McFeast
The fast-food dinner Trump hosted was also an argument: about government, about political messaging, about himself.
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Focus Features Hollywood Still Doesn’t Know What to Make of Childless Women
Mary Queen of Scots promises heady feminism, but it endorses a pernicious idea: Whatever else she might achieve, a woman who is not a mother is to be pitied.
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Altaf Qadri / AP Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas, and the Two Internets
What the mystifying alliance between a Bollywood star and a former boy-band member reveals about a global inability to communicate
