His career has taken him from Shakespeare to Star Trek – and soon he will be swimming with sharks on TV. He discusses longevity, tragedy, friendship and success
There’s a long, and problematic, history behind Stowaway.
After saying a racial slur and being exiled from radio, Morgan Wallen has become only more popular. What’s going on?
If Slack, which improves a fundamentally flawed approach to collaboration, is worth tens of billions of dollars, imagine the value in fixing the underlying problems.
Happy Holidays. This week we are reprinting our top stories of 2020. This article first appeared online in our “Outbreak” issue…
"Ted Lasso" and "Emily in Paris" are works of escapism that grapple with the inescapable.
What we talk about when we talk about addressing the savage roots of policing: justice and safety for everyone.
As the pandemic has raged on, popular culture has found new ways to ask an old question: What could have been instead?
"I want the courage to need very little and demand a lot."
When doing the right thing is too hard, we give up and let fate run wild
How the mechanisms of reality TV taught us to trust no one
I’m no stranger to forced isolation. For the better part of my 20s, I served as a nuclear submarine officer running secret missions…
We’re eating at street-corner stalls, food trucks, and the grocery. Restaurants might not be here when we get back.
It is tempting to view Roger Angell, who is now ninety-nine, as a keeper of this publication’s institutional memory. But he’s more likely to say, “I learned something truly amazing today!”
A spacefaring species could easily settle the entire Milky Way given billions of years. Yet the fact is that there is no obvious one…
How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.
It’s a cool night in downtown San Diego on the weekend before Halloween, and I’m standing outside the Hall of Justice in an astronaut costume,...
“Mild as May” That was the original advertising slogan for Marlboro cigarettes when they first hit the market in the 1920s. Decades before the rugged...
This Gen X sitcom endures because it sells younger fans on the appeal of working through life in second gear
He understands men in America better than most people do. The rest of the country should start paying attention.
He understands men in America better than most people do. The rest of the country should start paying attention.
Today the alkaline desert is quiet. The roar of techno music and flamethrowers has been replaced with the soft clink of rakes and…
As the quality of the top contestants has ramped up dramatically in recent years, the national competition has struggled to keep up.
The invention of religion is a big bang in human history. Gods and spirits helped explain the unexplainable, and religious belief…
Women are increasingly playing the role of best friend, lover, and on-call therapist to their male partners.
'James’s performance, I’m sure, is causing grief for an accountant somewhere.'
South Korea's big family-controlled conglomerates have identified the humanities as an antidote to their paralysis of innovation.
Bless your heart is not really a compliment. It sounds sweet as pie, and sometimes is said affectionately about pitiable situations, but it’s often acid-tongued...
