Ukraine is the first streaming service war
It debuted to a burst of attention only for everyone to lose interest
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The Roman roots of ‘colony’
The Greeks are better thought of as overseas settlers, often driven by land hunger, starvation, commerce or simply the search for a better life.
Biden’s border blues
The administration has had plenty of time to end this crisis
A hazy afternoon with Bill Maher
‘The young people are the prudes and don’t find anything funny’
Shane Gillis is going places
He’s perhaps the greatest rising comedian, a beer drinker who understands Trump’s appeal
Why I’ll never make it in stand-up
It’s the hardest, most unforgiving performance medium on the planet
How Netflix saved comedy
It saturated the market with comics who are on opposite sides of the culture wars
DeSantis is a Republican establishment win-win
The populist heart may want Trump, but many heads are for the Florida governor
Is the right about to backslide on gay rights?
It’s been dismaying to see anti-gay sentiment bubbling up
The revenge of the analog economy
Digital fantasies have collided with analog reality
My New York nightmare
I’m back in a city where you can’t walk alone after dark. Thank you, Democrats!
The strange effort to ‘decolonize’ global health
Some are unctuously eager to respect non-Western premises about medicine
The lost boys of Covid
School closures have set off a devastating domino effect
The trouble with Tavistock
Abuse is heaped on anyone who has questioned the trend toward carelessness in youth gender medicine
The scissor sisters
I hate to break it to you, ladies, but no man wants a woman barber
Taylor Lorenz is a crybully
She mines outrage and attention by crusading against the ethically unenlightened
The real motivation for the FBI raid
It wasn’t to collect classified documents
