Month: June 2020

Every year, we recruit a panel of experts — authors, critics, librarians — to help us curate a fantastic list of 100 favorite reads. And this year we’re celebrating books for the littlest readers.

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Rich Benjamin jokes about how Karens—the term for white women aggressively not minding their own business and often harassing or threatening people of color—can do damage control after being caught on video behaving badly.

Our famous summer reader poll is back, and this year, we’re thinking about all the parents and caregivers stuck inside, reading to restless little ones.

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The filmmaker was known for his hit ’80s movies The Lost Boys and St. Elmo’s Fire as well as his work on the Batman movie franchise.

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Currently in its fifth season on Sundance Now, the series focuses on the clandestine missions, office politics and kaleidoscopic personalities at France’s big spy organization, the DGSE.

WASHINGTON—Seeking to counter the narrative put forward by the mainstream media, the Trump administration announced Monday that the entire U.S. populace of 6,200 had attended the president’s recent rally in Tulsa. “Despite what the fake news at CNN and MSNBC would have you believe, President Trump was honored by the…

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Dr. Julie Holland thinks psychedelic drugs can be used in psychiatry to make treatment more efficient and effective. “This is sort of a new paradigm,” she says, “a revolutionary way to treat trauma.”

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MENLO PARK, CA—In an effort to curtail the organization’s outsized influence, Facebook announced Monday that it would be implementing new steps to ensure the breakup of the U.S. government before it becomes too powerful. “It’s long past time for us to take concrete actions against this behemoth of governance that has…

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Jason Adam Katzenstein shares an illustrated excerpt from “Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words & Pictures,” to be published by Harper Perennial.