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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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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
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Gus Ruelas / Reuters CBS’s Les Moonves Problem Isn’t Solved
A new report on the former chief executive suggests how much more work needs to be done at the network that enabled him.
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David J. Phillip / AP The Soft Lighting of a President's Legacy
Embedded in the 41st president’s legacy are tensions about the nature of presidential celebrity.
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Paper Magazine The Hard Lessons of Amanda Bynes’s Comeback
The former teen star broke down in excruciatingly public fashion five years ago. Her return brings up pointed questions about the way society handles struggling celebrities.
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Danny Moloshok / Reuters The End of The Clinton Affair
The scandal that led to an impeachment helped shape the America of 2018. Twenty years later, however, it also serves as a reminder of the stubbornness of the status quo.
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Wenjia Tang The Media Barely Covered One of the Worst Storms to Hit U.S. Soil
Weeks ago, Super Typhoon Yutu devastated the Northern Mariana Islands, which are home to tens of thousands of Americans. Mainland outlets paid little attention.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty / Katie … Sean Hannity Is Trump's Shadow Press Secretary
The Fox star finally dispenses with the polite fiction that he is anything more than the president’s puppet.
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Phillip Faraone / Getty for Fortune / The … Megyn Kelly’s Original Sin
The host, now leaving NBC, claimed that her morning show would be apolitical. It was a convenient act from the beginning.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Brett Kavanaugh, Mark Judge, and the Romanticizing of Teenage Indiscretion
An alleged witness to the rape attempt the Supreme Court nominee stands accused of has opined about rowdy-young-male behavior for years.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Why the Les Moonves Departure Is Not Enough
The powerful CBS chief is exiting the company after a new round of sexual-misconduct allegations. It’s a big deal—but it’s not the full deal.
