This article was co-published with The Intercept. A company run by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, hired by the Israeli government to push pro-Israel views on a major conservative media network, has directed $13 million from Israel to several Republican digital strategy firms and allies, according to a previously unreported document filed under the … Read more
Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival was forced to evacuate some of its stages Thursday — including canceling headlining sets by Doja Cat and Massive Attack — due to severe weather. Sets by Alex G, Mac DeMarco, and Bad Gyal were also canceled after heavy rain and wind gusts made performances at some of the festival’s stages … Read more
If there’s one thing that’s more synonymous with Nashville than music, it’s hot chicken. Today, hot chicken pops up on menus across the city with all sorts of variations, but the dish has a long history in the Black community of Nashville. It also exemplifies a much greater issue in Southern foodways with white chefs … Read more
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed legislation to fund President Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies early Friday, after weeks of delays and fierce backlash to an unrelated $1.776 billion settlement fund that threatened to derail the bill. Senators voted 52-47 to pass the $70 billion legislation to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol for the next three … Read more
As public backlash to the seeming omnipresence of artificial intelligence intensifies, the collective quest to weed out—and reject—telltale signs of its use continues. One of the first casualties, to my dismay, was em dashes—which are a great, and very human form of punctuation, by the way! There’s also the “rule of threes,” which is meant … Read more
There was once a time when “straight-to-VHS” was a slur, code for largely terrible bargain bucket movies made for next to nothing yet sporting wildly-overpromising covers. Today, it’s not even a thing. VHS tapes were replaced by DVDs and eventually streaming. The last VCR player was made in 2016. Most machines lie broken, covered in … Read more
When Donald Trump announced this week that Bill Pulte, the highly controversial director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, would serve as the acting director of national intelligence, the president’s move sent shockwaves through political and intelligence circles for the most obvious of reasons. Pulte has literally no background in intelligence or national security, failing … Read more
Over the last spring semester, my friends and I bemoaned our common predicament as Harvard College juniors: the difficulty of landing a summer internship. Even with the stellar qualifications that brought us here, it has not been enough to satisfy the demands of countless external companies. Many parents mostly send their children to college — … Read more
Roki Sasaki, it turns out, can be quite the jokester. In contrast to the 24-year-old right-hander’s more reserved demeanor on the mound and in postgame interviews, those who have gotten to know him during the past year and a half with the Dodgers have been treated to a different side of him. “He talks a … Read more
When President Donald Trump announced a possible U.S.-Iran understanding, he did so after placing calls to a number of regional countries: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, and – separately – Israel. Not a single European capital was on the call list. As the Quincy Institute’s Executive Vice President, … Read more
In recent days, a fantastical question has captured the attention of New Yorkers and local tabloids: Who is popping in and out of manholes across the city, and what are they doing in the sewer system? On May 5, security footage showed three people wearing hip waders entering a manhole in Queens. Then, in the … Read more
The proposed $111 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery is approaching completion, but concerns around debt, execution risk, and long-term industry volatility loom large. On the latest episode of the Variety podcast “Strictly Business,” Naveen Sarma, sector lead for U.S. media and telecom at S&P Global, explained the rationale for the downgrade his agency gave the … Read more
More than a year after being laid off as a software engineer, Jesse Jashinsky still couldn’t find work. He was supporting his family on a patchwork of unemployment and SNAP benefits, help from their church, and increasing amounts of credit card debt. Then their car broke down. Replacing the transmission was an emergency expense they … Read more
Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell and I’m wondering why no one ever talks about Roy Hobbs as one of the all-time greats. It’s like he didn’t even exist. Are you a true-blue fan? Get our Dodgers Dugout newsletter for insights, news and much more. By continuing, … Read more
Blackstone-backed data center operator AirTrunk said on Thursday it would invest $30 billion in India by 2030, adding to a wave of commitments from technology and infrastructure groups seeking to expand computing capacity in the country. The Australian company said it would develop 5 gigawatts of new data center capacity in India, one of the … Read more