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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The other week, I updated the operating system on my Mac laptop after putting the task off for many months. (One intractable flaw of technological devices: they never actually update overnight…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Hills and Mountains.” Salar Pashtoonyar’s documentary short begins by discussing how the Soviet invasion of 1979 fundamentally altered life in Afghanistan. Over footage of people going about their day in…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story My son, who is at pains to tell you that he is not five but five and three-quarters, is obsessed with the future. He draws pictures of crystalline cityscapes crisscrossed by…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Summer is often a special, slower time—a respite from the frenetic activity of the rest of the year—that allows for spending more time with loved ones. For the cover of the…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Katy Perry’s breakout moment, in the late two-thousands, had a type of frivolity and irreverence that feels difficult to summon now. Her début single, “I Kissed a Girl,” from 2008, is…

State of the Union: The professional wrestler visibly energized the audience. “USA! USA! USA!” the crowd chanted as Terry Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan, a professional wrestler, took the stage Thursday at the Republican National Convention to endorse Donald…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story After a gunman attacked Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, the first pieces of media to emerge were striking photographs of Trump, with blood trickling down his…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On a recent Sunday afternoon, I visited the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which occupies a gleaming Renzo Piano building on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, in Los…

Trump is right about Clooney’s talents. Credit: THIERRY ORBAN/Sygma via Getty Images After George Clooney commandeered the op-ed section of the New York Times to counsel President Joe Biden to depart the presidential race, it was only a matter of…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story To borrow a bit of social-media parlance, “Twisters,” the new disaster movie from the director Lee Isaac Chung, understands the assignment. The movie, which is set in Oklahoma during peak storm…