by Editor | Sep 3, 2025 | Culture Music Art
from SLATE The Legalized Gambling Industry Is Collapsing in on Itself You’ll soon be able to bet on elections, the Super Bowl, and the papal conclave, all in one place. BY NITISH PAHWA Photo illustration by Slate. Images via efks/iStock/Getty Images Plus and...
by Editor | Sep 2, 2025 | Weirdness
from National Geographic The fight to preserve Mexico’s portals to the underworld Can the Yucatan Peninsula’s enchanting cenotes be saved? ByIngrid Rojas Contreras / Photographs byRobbie Shone On a sweltering day in April 2025, a small group of cave researchers led by...
by Editor | Sep 1, 2025 | Culture Music Art
from The Free Press Suzy Weiss: The Internet Ruined Their Lives. Now, They’re Back. What does life look like after cancellation? James Frey and Lee Tilghman on public shame, letting go, and leaning into being outsiders. By Suzy Weiss GETTING CANCELED “CAN ALSO BE...
by Editor | Aug 27, 2025 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
by Editor | Aug 26, 2025 | Culture Music Art
from The New Yorker A24’s Empire of Auteurs The studio is brilliant at selling small, provocative films. Now it wants to sell blockbusters, too. By Alex Barasch ddd In November of 2015, the upstart film studio A24 had a problem. Executives had acquired the...
