What I learned rewatching The West Wing in the Biden era

Clarence Thomas and the enigma of social media

The GOP's cultural impotence

The cynic's case for democracy

Biden's unlikely allies

Republicans' fake crusade against corporate power

How COVID-19 could save America's National Parks

The daily gossip (Taylor's Version): Swifties bury the old version of Fearless, Prince Philip's death is already somehow Meghan Markle's fault, and more

The Joss Whedon problem haunting The Nevers

Shouldn't Congress be considered essential?

Republicans literally want to work Americans to death

The Payroll Protection Program's problems were extremely avoidable

What Mike Pence should learn from Judas

Make America Laugh Again

How Trump could use Amy Coney Barrett as leverage over Mitch McConnell

Man runs from Disneyland to Disney World for diabetes awareness

3,000-year-old lost city unearthed in Egypt

The week's good news: April 8, 2021

Are 2 monster movies better than 1?

The daily gossip: Kylie Jenner's charitable donation went awry, Ana de Armas seemingly denies getting back with Ben Affleck, and more

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier begins to take Marvel's world-building to a new level

How Trump can still win the election

The week's best photojournalism

How defending the Bills made me love Buffalo

Selling Sunset and the healing powers of frivolous gossip

Matt Gaetz's office released a statement from his 'women' staffers. No actual women are named in the letter.

Biden says he'll seek re-election in 2024 — but also leaves himself an out

Matt Gaetz and the tyranny of the backbencher

House Democrats' dangerous flirtation with election denial

The GOP's anti-woke cul-de-sac

Biden's lose-lose immigration strategy

How Biden's immigration bill would empower future Trumps

How Biden can future-proof America's immigration system

2020 is the year to shop small

The American Dream was built on 'handouts'

The modernization of Prince Harry

Do polls show the media is missing the story on Trump?

Congress almost rises to the occasion. Almost.

The Tea Party case for the Trump stimulus

Republicans' deficit hypocrisy comes home to roost

Hey, Democrats: Awful Lindsey Graham is your friend

I was wrong about Mitt Romney

Refund the police

Israeli politics might just break one of its greatest taboos

Europe's vaccine lunacy

The pandemic is revealing how bad our technology really is

Did the virus kill the techlash?

Coronavirus and the uncomfortable calculus of the gig economy

I found the internet's good place. It's dogs.

Why I fell hard for the emoji tapback

'You're fine': The Ugg boot of apology responses

Democrats' delusional disenchantment with immigration enforcement

What Rush Limbaugh meant to conservatives

Impeachment will only worsen the GOP's legitimacy crisis

Sundance reckons with the streaming revolution

The refreshing awfulness of Rick and Morty

Knives Out does what so many of the best mysteries do: Carve up the rich

Trump tried to act like a mob boss. Instead he's just a thug.

Shrill normalizes fat people, and that's a good thing

She's a woman. She's a superhero. Get over it.

I love dogs. But can we stop pretending they should get to go everywhere with us?

Gardening is great

America's Maenad moment

Kristen Wiig's belated Bridesmaids follow-up

Amy Adams is too good to do something like Hillbilly Elegy

The welcome return of sad Ben Affleck

Is Daniel Radcliffe trying to make us hate him?

First Cow is a necessary portrait of platonic male affection

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire is about truly being seen by another

The antidote to 2018 is this video game about a cartoon chef in a pirate-ship kitchen

Why aren't you watching the WNBA?

The limits of Messi's magic

How families can self-quarantine without going insane

Are my favorite childhood books teaching bad things to my kids?

The joy and sadness of being surpassed by your kids

In the future, will the English language be full of accented characters?

10 signature foods with borrowed names

The delicate art of using linguistics to identify an anonymous author

What Broad City taught me about weed, life plans, and chosen family

8 award-winning food puns for your Oscars party menu

11 essential cooking skills I learned purely by watching countless hours of Chopped

The daily business briefing: April 9, 2021

10 things you need to know today: April 9, 2021

The daily business briefing: April 8, 2021

The week's best parenting advice: April 6, 2021

The week's best parenting advice: March 23, 2021

The week's best parenting advice: March 16, 2021

A ship-sized metaphor

Cuomo's karma

Vaccine envy