Are we living through the end times? Dorian Lynskey interrogates our insatiable appetite for doom - and asks why each generation is so drawn to the idea that they will be the lastIt is a sunny afternoon in Taormina, Sicily, and two wealthy couples on holiday are drinking Aperol spritz on a balcony overlooking the sea. Harper, who runs on anxiety and guilt, says she has trouble sleeping because of “everything that’s going on in the world”. Daphne, who runs on pleasure and denial, asks what she...
There are few things on the Biden administration’s long list of failures that so exemplify pure ineptitude as the rollout of the simplified Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Three months after finally launching, the Department of Education can’t stop messing it up. The latest error from the incompetent and bloated agency was a calculation […]
A few years ago, when James Carville was teaching at Louisiana State University, he heard that one of his students had gotten into the school of her dreams to work on an advanced degree. He wanted to toast her. “I get a $25 champagne and four plastic flutes,” he recalled, “and I said to the students: ‘All right. You are not going to get out of James Carville’s class unless you know how to properly open a bottle of champagne.’ “I said: ‘Here’s what you’re going to do. You don’t pop it like you...
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” It’s a question most of us were asked in our childhood. When I was young, a lot of kids dreamed of being astronauts, doctors and firefighters. Then we grew up.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David stated in a new interview that “you can’t go a day” without thinking about what former President Donald Trump has done to the United States, calling the former president a “little baby.” David made his statement on Trump when conducting an interview with CNN anchor Chris Wallace, during which […]
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Great curations from Jeremy Okai Davis and Morgan Ritter, and the upside down server case we all can't stop talking about. by Ashley Gifford Peterson Looking at this season of spring gallery shows, we are reminded that art is all at once political, speculative, and personal. At the top of our list are interesting curations: Jeremy Okai Davis presents work by his contemporaries at Nationale, and Morgan Ritter pairs up painstaking...
The government’s controversial plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has hit another glitch - with no airlines willing to take them.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre abruptly ended an interview with 99.3 WBT Charlotte News Director Mark Garrison on Tuesday, ahead of President Biden’s visit to Raleigh. The interview was cut short after Garrison asked a question about President Biden’s mental health. “That is incredibly offensive. I’m not going to take the premise of your […]
Shaquille O’Neal is worried about Jake Paul, win or lose against boxing legend Mike Tyson. While the boxing match will surely generate worldwide viewing since it will be televised on Netflix,
SHARYN MOUSLEY had three very special parents – her mum Diane Jansen, her father Paul O’Grady and a wicked stepmother called Lily Savage. A year after the death of the much-loved entertainer, she h