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I never leave home without one
Culture
Tuesday
Thursday
Will Disney strike a deal to end its YouTube TV blackout?
YouTubeTV knows it remains in the driver’s seat
Sunday
On less famous presidential assassins
Death by Lighting is uproarious fun
Wednesday
Wokeness ended my backroom Jeopardy! habit
A bootleg re-enactment of the game succumbed to petty drama
How chess killed Danya Naroditsky
His passion for the game led to his suicide last month
Tuesday
Florence and the Machine is back
The band’s new album, Everybody Scream, contains some of the best music released this year
It pays to be a bad college-football coach
A talent arms race is driving up the coaches’ price tags – even when those coaches are horrible
Friday
Don McCullin shows no signs of slowing down
In the veteran photojournalist’s later work, a sense of foreboding is never far away
Wednesday
Del Toro’s Frankenstein deserves the big screen
Still, it’s a relief that Netflix, for all its faults, is bankrolling work as individual and striking as this
Tuesday
Why was Steven Soderbergh’s Star Wars film rejected?
That his film might be seen as a risk says a lot about how tainted the brand has become
Thursday
Is OCD hip?
Olivia Levine’s one-woman show takes the mental illness as a subject
The Will Stancil Show is art
The AI-generated cartoon is better than anything Comedy Central or Adult Swim has produced in the last 20 years
Wednesday
Is Jeremy Strong our John Cazale?
The actor is the best part of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Tuesday
How Alex Jones won
A mixture of Martin Luther King Jr. and L. Ron Hubbard, he is our greatest living orator
Why the Army needs the cavalry
Yes, the horses were a throwback to a bygone era, but isn’t the Army proud of its history?
‘Gender-affirming care’ is never justified
The scale of the problem is no longer a matter of opinion; it’s a number
New York City belongs to the rats
The rodents grace T-shirts, mugs and cups
Gossip is good for you… so I’m told
Indeed, it has some evolutionary advantages
Friday
We need Sabrina Carpenter
She’s the nation’s court jester
Have the Virginia Giuffre revelations got Prince Andrew sweating?
Excerpts from her new memoir are a mixture of the newsworthy and the unremarkable