• ‘Like eating too much chocolate’: Guardian readers on Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department

    ‘Bland’ or ‘absolutely breathtaking’? Our readers are divided over Swift’s epically long, richly detailed new albumAs someone who has been a Swiftie for over a decade, my initial impression is that this album is one of her best lyrically, but production-wise it can get a bit repetitive by the end. While Folklore, Evermore and Midnights were full of either fictional tales or vague reminiscences, The Tortured Poets Department is a clear return to her old style of extremely personal, confessional...

  • What It’s Really Like Inside Trump’s Trial

    POLITICO reporters take you inside the courtroom that could decide the 2024 election.

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    There’s a Lot to Like About the NFL’s New Uniforms

    As the NFL gears up for this week’s draft, a few teams have already made significant additions for next season. The New York Jets, Denver Broncos, and Detroit Lions all recently announced that they’ll be wearing new uniforms this fall, each set bringing something that caught our eye. Conversations about uniforms are always divisive, and we’ll let you decide which of the three is your all-around favorite, but each has a distinct flavor. Here’s what we’re digging about each. Most necessary change:...

  • There’s a Lot to Like About the NFL’s New Uniforms

    The Jets, Broncos, and Lions are all changing up their jerseys for the 2024

  • How much is Possible’s future in Michael Kassan’s hands?

    Some people in the know at Possible said they see the conference taking a bite out of Cannes' attendance, most acutely by U.S.-based marketers who could save money by staying on this side of the Atlantic.

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    The U.S.S Kidd heads to Houma for much needed repairs

    BATON ROUGE - After 41 years of sitting in her cradle in downtown Baton Rouge, the USS Kidd is headed to Houma for some much needed repairs.“She was never designed to go up and down on a cradle like she's been sitting in for 41 years, and the plates where they join and that has to be strengthened form the inside," former Louisiana Congressman Henson Moore said.The Kidd was the 661st destroyer built by the U.S. Navy and launched in 1943, serving in both WWII and the Korean War. She was...

  • People Are Divided Over Martin Freeman’s Comments About His Controversial Movie “Miller’s Girl”

    The movie includes a graphic sex scene between Martin and Jenna, who were 50 and 19 years old at the time of filming.View Entire Post ›

  • Like father, like son? The complex factors that shape a parent’s influence on their child

    Scientific studies cannot agree on the relative importance of genes and environment on how we turn out as adultsThe eternal mystery of how much we are shaped by our parents – or how much we shape our children – was stirred again last week with the publication of a study that suggests that we are less like our parents than we had previously thought.Led by René Mõttus of Edinburgh University’s department of psychology, the study looked at more than 1,000 pairs of relatives to establish how likely...

  • ‘This one’s like a castle!’ The hunt for the world’s wildest, daftest and most beautiful hedges

    They can swallow road signs and trigger lethal neighbour feuds. From the suburbs of Britain to the deserts of Arizona, we explore a show celebrating glorious green bordersSomewhere in the leafy depths of British suburbia, a thick circular hedge sprouts from the top of a grassy hill in the middle of a roundabout. The top of the hedge is carefully trimmed with rectangular crenellations, giving it the look of a motte-and-bailey castle, while a second more threadbare hedge encircles the foot of the...

  • It’s clearer than ever that Brexit has failed – let’s not inflict its miseries on young people

    A scheme to allow British under-30s to live and work in the EU has been flatly rejected. Why punish them for older voters’ mistakes?Only those born before 1998 could vote on Brexit, so there is no conceivable way of knowing which way today’s 18- to 30-year-olds would have felt about it. Oh, except there is: 70% of 18- to 24-year-olds think leaving the EU was a bad idea. Of the 25- to 49-year-olds, 66% also think we were wrong to leave. If you can bear to drag your mind back to the immediate...

  • Michael Douglas on Biden’s Mental Acuity: People Say He’s Sharp as a Tack

    Actor Michael Douglas said Sunday on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS that people say President Joe Biden is as "sharp as a tack" while discussing the president's age.

  • Putin likely did not directly order Navalny’s killing, U.S. intelligence agencies conclude

    U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably didn’t directly order the killing of Alexei Navalny at a remote penal colony in February, according to three sources familiar with the matter. But the precise circumstances of the opposition leader’s death at the Arctic prison remain unclear. The assessment does not absolve Putin of ultimate responsibility for Navalny’s fate, only that the Russian president likely did not call for his killing at that time,...