Things are still settling down for the most part as we are getting closer to knowing what these teams are. As always, my picks are straight-up, no points. Steelers over Browns Commanders over Colts ...

The rain never stopped in New York, but inside the penthouse of Trump Tower, the world was cast in twenty-four-karat gold. It was a fortress of glass and steel, suspended above the concrete canyons of...

THE NEON NIGHTMARE OF THE ROAD NOT TAKEN Just for a second, shut up and listen. The world out there isn’t just breaking; it has already rotted down to the floorboards, and you’re standing on the spl...

It is impossible to discuss Ari Emanuel without immediately confronting the awkward shadow of Jeremy Piven, which is a bizarre sentence to type about a real human being who oversees billions of dollar...

It is impossible to discuss Ari Emanuel without immediately confronting the awkward shadow of Jeremy Piven, which is a bizarre sentence to type about a real human being who oversees billions of dollar...

The air in Portland, Maine, smells of salt, kelp, and diesel exhaust—the distinct, unglamorous perfume of a working waterfront. For Jim Tselikis and Sabin Lomac, this smell was the backdrop of their y...

Keep in mind these rankings are based on the teams' performances on the field this season, and take no other facts under consideration. 1. 49ers 2. Chiefs 3. Raiders 4. Vikings 5. Bills 6....

The history of American transportation is largely a chronicle of straight lines and stubborn boxes, a grid-iron obsession born from the minds of surveyors who looked at a continent of rolling hills, a...

How I Smoked, Drank, and Stumbled My Way Through the '70s Punk Scene (and Beyond) Legs McNeil has always preferred his history covered in cheap beer, stale cigarette smoke, and the kind of floor-stai...

The history of American transportation is largely a chronicle of straight lines and stubborn boxes, a grid-iron obsession born from the minds of surveyors who looked at a continent of rolling hills, a...

How I Smoked, Drank, and Stumbled My Way Through the '70s Punk Scene (and Beyond) Legs McNeil has always preferred his history covered in cheap beer, stale cigarette smoke, and the kind of floor-stai...

On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students, radicalized by decades of American support for the deposed Shah and freshly emboldened by the revolution that had just toppled his government, stormed...

It is genuinely difficult to remember what life was like before we treated obsolescence as a moral imperative, mostly because we haven’t lived through a Tuesday in the last twenty years where someone ...

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

The final three years of the decade don't get remembered with anything like the gravity of Watergate or the moral seriousness of Chinatown, and there's a reason for that, one worth being honest about ...

The Incredible True Story of the Spies Who Tricked Hitler and Won the War The history of the Second World War is paved with stories of immense bravery, unimaginable sacrifice, and technological bre...

While the impact on the midterms might be minimal, Justice Jackson warns some eligible voters could be disenfranchised.

For whatever reason, I forgot to post my picks for the NFL games this week. I usually post them on Thursday before the game that night, but I didn't. So, here they are, including the last night's game...

We know how the trick works. We have seen the documentary footage, read the serialized investigative journalism, and absorbed the paperbacks with earnest, professorial subtitles. The tobacco industry ...

Look at the clock. Look at the bloody calendar. We are living inside a slaughterhouse of our own design, and we refuse to look up from our glowing rectangles long enough to notice the blood dripping f...

The Ramones released their self-titled debut that April, fourteen songs in under thirty minutes, no guitar solos, no orchestral pretension, nothing but pure, stripped-down, breakneck simplicity delive...

Look at the clock. Look at the bloody calendar. We are living inside a slaughterhouse of our own design, and we refuse to look up from our glowing rectangles long enough to notice the blood dripping f...

On the Road in Canada For more than half a century, Paul Theroux has hauled his luggage, his skepticism, and his extraordinarily sharp eye into the far corners of the globe. He has ridden rattling ...

America turned two hundred years old on July 4, 1976, and the country threw itself a party of genuinely staggering scale — tall ships crowding New York Harbor, fireworks over every city with a budget ...

On the Road in Canada For more than half a century, Paul Theroux has hauled his luggage, his skepticism, and his extraordinarily sharp eye into the far corners of the globe. He has ridden rattling ...

Bestselling author Zibby Owens has always had a remarkable gift for sharing life’s most relatable, unvarnished moments with a warmth and openness that make readers feel seen. For years, she has champi...

Three films. One calendar year. Chinatown, The Conversation, and The Godfather Part II, all released in 1974, and all three now sitting comfortably on essentially every serious list of the greatest Am...

Let’s not screw around here. If you grew up loving baseball—truly, deeply, down-in-your-gut loving the game—your Sundays weren't defined by church bells or family brunches. They were defined by the we...

There is a mostly unexamined consensus that historical reality is a fixed object. We tend to view history as a series of heavy blocks that could only have dropped into place exactly the way they did. ...

By the summer of 1974, the vast, slow-moving story this series has spent five straight chapters meticulously describing—the leaked Pentagon papers, the bungled burglary at the Watergate complex, the h...