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Not long ago, I asked The New Yorker’s editor, David Remnick, whether he’d ever return to the Academy Awards, having attended ...

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From the daily newsletter: the major moments from the 2025 Oscars. Plus: how Democrats lost their way on immigration; Musk’s ...

Free-speech battles and pressure from Washington threaten America’s oldest university—and the soul of higher education.

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In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of their Asian neighbors in Rock Springs, Wyoming. A hundred and forty years later, ...

DOGE operatives claim that mass layoffs are necessary to prevent the U.S. government from going bankrupt. Let’s do the math.

Even as the Academy increasingly recognizes independent productions, a blockbuster mentality still governs the almost ...

Any Oscars ceremony where most of the big prizes go to “Anora” and “The Brutalist”—two blazingly intelligent, vividly ...

The Oscar for Best Live Action Short went to Victoria Warmerdam’s darkly comic tale about a woman who fails a series of ...

If you’ve got ovaries, you’ll go through it. So why does every generation think it’s the first to have hot flashes?