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From the daily newsletter: it could all depend on Arizona; why Ta-Nehisi Coates writes; and the flat provocations of “Joker: ...

A recent residency at Caesar’s Palace doubled as a homecoming. As one band member says, “We never lost the Vegas.” ...

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The Brooklyn Bridge didn’t exist. Nor did BAM, Prospect Park, Grand Army Plaza, or the Coney Island Cyclone. In a winter ...

The day after Vance’s comments, a judge unsealed a brief from the special counsel Jack Smith, which contained a detailed ...

Todd Phillips’s movie musical, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, walks back the hectic ideology that gave “Joker” its ...

From the daily newsletter: a surprising find at L.A.’s health-food mecca. Plus: escalation between Israel and Iran; ChatGPT’s ...

To discuss the U.S.-Israel relationship, and the motives behind Israel’s latest military actions, I recently spoke by phone ...

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You must take this infinity scarf to Mordor and destroy it before twenty-tens fashion comes back in full swing.” ...

In Jez Butterworth’s melancholy drama and David Henry Hwang’s mischievously postmodern play, stardom is both a lure and a lie ...