Popular podcasts in the “manosphere” helped sway young men to go MAGA in the 2024 election. New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz explains how Democrats can win them back.
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Author: Tonya Mosley
New songs by Teddy Swims, Benjamin Booker and Neil Young let loose with big emotions
Rock critic Ken Tucker recommends three songs that are recent additions to his playlist: “Are You Even Real,” by Swims; “Same Kind of Lonely,” by Booker; and “big change,” by Young.
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Author: Ken Tucker
Can you look at these 9 photos and not smile on International Day of Happiness?
March 20 is International Happiness Day — a day that the United Nations had dedicated to the celebration of joy. We asked photographers around the world to share a picture that can bring bliss.
(Image credit: Andre Malerba / The Everyday Projects)
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Author: Marc Silver
For Uzo Aduba, there’s no such thing as ‘too late’
Orange Is the New Black‘s Uzo Aduba says she doesn’t believe in destiny. In this week’s Wild Card, Aduba opens up about how motherhood shaped her and why she’s made peace with mortality.
(Image credit: Kevin Winter)
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Author: Rachel Martin
‘Snow White,’ and four more buzzy movies coming to theaters this weekend
An embattled Disney princess, a steroid-addled bodybuilder and a trapped carjacker are all at cineplexes this weekend.
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Author: Bob Mondello
Miami Beach drops plans to evict a theater for showing ‘No Other Land’
Miami Beach’s mayor has dropped an effort to evict and defund an arts cinema after strong opposition from the community and other elected officials.
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Author: Greg Allen
‘AI Valley’ author worries there’s ‘so much power in the hands of few people’
Author Gary Rivlin says regulation can help control how AI is used: “AI could be an amazing thing around health, medicine, scientific discoveries, education … as long as we’re deliberate about it.”
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Author: Dave Davies
Karen Russell’s ‘The Antidote’ is an American epic — and well worth the wait
Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel in nearly 15 years. It follows a “Prairie Witch” in Dust Bowl-era Nebraska.
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Author: Maureen Corrigan
Told one minute at a time, micro dramas are soap operas designed to fit in your hand
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Apps like ReelShort, FlickReels and DramaBox offer short clips that add up to movie-length stories. Plus, they’re filmed vertically, so you can follow the twisty plotlines without turning your phone.
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Author: Kristian Monroe
Pro-Greed Fables for Crypto Executives
When the king took bread and bit down on a hard golden crust, he realized his mistake, and said, “What if we had it not work like that?” So Dionysus modified the blessing such that King Midas turned everything he touched into gold unless that was bad.
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Author: Charlie Dektar