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A new company is bringing the engineering savvy of rocket science to the design of the high-heeled shoe. Can stilettos that are actually comfortable to wear change centuries’ worth of symbolism?
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NBC Saturday Night Live Makes the Case That Ivanka Is 'Complicit'
The show is finally acknowledging that the president’s daughter makes her own decisions … via an ad for her new “fragrance.”
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Bebeto Matthews / AP Amal Clooney's Baby Bump and the Awkward State of the Media Brand
A Time story got pilloried for focusing not on the speech the human rights lawyer delivered to the U.N., but on her “baby bump.” It deserved the mockery … and, in another way, it didn’t.
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Neville Elder / Ted Streshinsky Photographic Archive / ... We Sell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
Joan Didion’s South and West: From a Notebook is a 1970s-era artifact that has found its proper home in the anxious world of 2017.
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ABC The Bachelor Gets Political
The show’s seasonal The Women Tell All special could be read as a cocktail-dress-clad invocation of current events.
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CBS Donald Trump and Late-Night: Two (Completely Different) Strategies
On Tuesday evening, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel offered telling case studies in covering the president.
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CBS What Is 'The Media'? (Jon Stewart Edition)
The former Daily Show host joined his old colleague, Stephen Colbert, on The Late Show to give an indignant rebuke to the American press.
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ABC Corinne Found the Perfect Way to Rebel Against The Bachelor
Over the course of the season, the show’s latest villain just might have … grown as a person.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters 'Moonlight, Best Picture': The Oscars and the Rare Power of Shock
In an era when audiences are so sure about so much, the mistake—simple, dramatic, human—can be a wonderful thing.
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Noam Galai / Getty / The Atlantic Why Are They 'Stars'?
Celebrities are celestial because of Shakespeare. And because of Chaucer. And because of the weird workings of the movie camera.
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Eric Miller / Reuters Scenes From the Mall of America
The massive shopping center, to celebrate its 25th anniversary, wants to bring on a writer-in-residence—to write in the mall, about the mall, and for the mall.
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Lefteris Pitarakis / AP The Case for Shyness
Joe Moran’s book Shrinking Violets is a sweeping history that doubles as a (quiet) defense of timidity.
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Ben Cohen / NBC Game Theory
The Wall, one of many TV game shows currently winning over primetime audiences, stars both plastic balls and American heroes.
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ABC ABC Has Finally Cast a Black Bachelorette
“Gahgress”? “Mehvolution”? There should be a word for a good thing that takes far, far too long to happen.
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NBC Galentine's Day: How a Beloved Fiction Became a Beloved Tradition
It started as a celebration of Leslie Knope’s ladyfriends. But the pseudo-holiday has caught on as a way to celebrate that most common and yet most unremarked-upon of things: female friendship.
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HBO John Oliver Is Buying Ads on Cable News to Talk to President Trump
What’s the nuclear triad? How is the unemployment rate determined? The late-night comedian wants to make sure the chief executive knows.
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NBC Saturday Night Live, Lobbyist
On this weekend’s episode, Alec Baldwin returned as Donald Trump, Melissa McCarthy returned as Sean Spicer, and everyone else returned with a message for the president: “We know you’re watching. Let’s talk.”
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TBS What Is CNN For? (Samantha Bee Edition)
The comedian offers some thoughts on how to make the cable news network great again.
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Andrew Harnik / AP 'Nevertheless, She Persisted' and the Age of the Weaponized Meme
Mitch McConnell silenced Elizabeth Warren in the Senate chamber. That only made her voice louder.
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Evan Agostini / Invision / AP 'Recruit Rosie': When Satire Joins the Resistance
“If called I will serve,” the comedian said of the requests that she play Steve Bannon on Saturday Night Live. It was a joke—and, also, extremely serious.
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Comedy Central South Park's Creators Have Given Up on Satirizing Donald Trump
For now, anyway.
