Report: U.S. Agreed to Pay North Korea $2 Million for Otto Warmbier’s CareNew York Magazine - Adam K. Raymond American student Otto Warmbier at his 2015 trial. In the summer of 2017, just before the release of American student Otto Warmbier from North Korean …
Biden’s Strategy for Winning the 2020 Nomination: No Early StumblesNew York Magazine - Ed Kilgore Can Biden successfully float above — or duke it out with — a large field of Democratic rivals? Now that both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have …
Lori Loughlin Lori Loughlin Is Reportedly Claiming She Didn’t Realize Bribery Is Illegalthecut.com - Lisa Ryan Lori Loughlin. Full House actress Lori Loughlin faces federal charges – including money laundering and mail fraud conspiracy – for her alleged …
Kevin Drum People Who Claim to Work 75-Hour Weeks Usually Only Work About 50 HoursNew York Magazine - Josh Barro I want to thank Kevin Drum from Mother Jones for surfacing a 2011 Bureau of Labor Statistics study that confirms something I’ve long suspected: …
American Workplaces May Be Getting More DangerousNew York Magazine - Sarah Jones President Trump speaks at U.S. Steel’s Granite City Works steel mill in Illinois on July 26, 2018. Two hours. That’s how long it took first responders …
Joe Biden Joe Biden Is Running On a Promise to Be Kind, Rewind to 2016New York Magazine - Eric Levitz Hope and reversion. Joe Biden wants to make America “already great” again. There was no shortage of soothing, optimistic voices in the Democratic …
Sneakers Everlane’s Sustainable Dad Sneakers Are Herethecut.com - Sarah Spellings Everlane’s latest project — shortly after pledging to go virgin-plastic free — is a super sustainable sneaker. But it’s not just a measly sneaker. As …
Joe Biden Why… Is Biden’s Announcement Tweet…Like That?thecut.com - Madeleine Aggeler Tweet boys. On Thursday morning — less than a month after several women came forward with accounts of how he had violated their personal space and made …
Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen Is Wearing Your Office Lookthecut.com - Gabriella Paiella If your office is anything like mine, then it’s freezing year-round. First in winter, because it’s winter, and then even colder starting in April, …
Joe Biden All of the Problems With Joe Biden’s Logo, According to the HatersNew York Magazine - Adam K. Raymond Jo Biden’s logo. Joe Biden is in. After months of speculation and dozens of other candidates entering the race, the former vice-president launched his …
Fasting What Is Autophagy?thecut.com - Edith Zimmerman Recently Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey tweeted about his experiments with intermittent fasting: “I do a 22-hour fast daily (dinner only),” he wrote, …
Prince Harry Kate Middleton and Prince Harry Hung Out, How Nicethecut.com - Lisa Ryan Kate Middleton and Prince Harry. As we all patiently await news of the impending birth of Baby Sussex (since the royal baby is due any day now), Kate …
The First and Last Appearances of Game of Thrones’ Most Memorable Charactersvulture.com - Rebecca Alter What is dead may never die, but then again, all men must die, depending on whom you ask. And nowhere does that paradox hold more truth than with our …
Bill Cosby Cosby Calls His Trial ‘Most Racist and Sexist’ in American Historyvulture.com - Natalie Hope McDonald Bill Cosby. Despite having called his incarceration “amazing” earlier this year, convicted felon Bill Cosby now says he wants out. After being …
Amy Schumer Amy Schumer Just Really Loves This Clean Beauty Brandthecut.com - Erica Smith Amy Schumer. Clean beauty brand Beautycounter is known for a few things, like its safe makeup, this very pigmented lipstick, and its very passionate …
Netflix Tim Robinson’s Netflix Sketch Show Is Comedy Perfectionvulture.com - Fran Hoepfner Tim Robinson in I Think You Should Leave. This week, comedian Tim Robinson’s new sketch show I Think You Should Leave premiered on Netflix with six …
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones’ Gwendoline Christie Understands If You’re Worried About Brienne Nowvulture.com - Hillary Kelly Gwendoline Christie’s greeting will really rattle you with its joy. Helloooooo! she sings out when she answers the phone, like a delighted Oprah with …
Joe Biden The Joe Biden Candidacy Is Now Upon Usthecut.com - Hannah Gold Despite multiple recent claims of inappropriate touching, and a career of regressive political positions, former Vice President Joe Biden has done …
Cats Method Actor Taylor Swift Went to ‘Cat School’ on the Set of the Movie Catsvulture.com - Jackson McHenry We may not know what Taylor Swift is announcing tonight at midnight, but we do know that she loves cats, and that she is playing a cat in the movie …
New York Public Library A Blowout Wedding Weekend at Iconic New York Landmarksthecut.com - Sarah Spellings Welcome to Isn’t It Romantic?, a week in which we will indulge our desire to shamelessly ogle lavish, beautiful weddings. Next up: Jacqueline Smyth …
God Ramy’s Horniest Scene Reminded Me of My Temporary Marriagethecut.com - Maham Hasan My secret was so well kept that I’d barely thought about it until the premiere of the sexually complex new Hulu comedy Ramy, a series about …
Bradley Cooper Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga Might — Might! — Reunite Ally and Jackson for a Live Star Is Born Eventvulture.com - Hunter Harris A Star Is Born will live forever; A Star Is Born will never die! After the encore rerelease and the “Shallow” performance at the Oscars, it looks like …
Rami Malek James Bond Is Back! Shaken, Not Stirred, and With Rami Malek, Billy Magnussenvulture.com - Hunter Harris It’s James Bond time, baby! Daniel Craig and director Cary Joji Fukunaga convened in Jamaica for an announcement about Bond 25, due in 2020. Joining …
Winston Duke Winston Duke’s American Dreamvulture.com - Nate Jones When Winston Duke was a teenager in Brighton, New York, the kids at his high school started calling him a “close talker.” The term — plucked from a …
Proms How The Prom Wrote a Fake Showstopper That Still Worksvulture.com - Jackson McHenry If you write a musical with a character that’s a Broadway star, you better be able to provide evidence of her stardom. In Broadway’s The Prom, a …
The Petty Writing Mistake That Drives Me Nutsthecut.com - Edith Zimmerman Earlier this week, I was reading a tweet from a writer I admire (the new “I was enjoying a novel”?), and she ended it with a parenthetical that …
Republicans Why Republicans Might Not Mind Losing the White House in 2020New York Magazine - Ed Kilgore If Trump loses next year, some of the Republican tears shed on his behalf may be of the crocodile variety. While the public ranks of anti-Trump …
Joe Biden Joe Biden Finally Launches Campaign With Video Directly Attacking TrumpNew York Magazine - Margaret Hartmann “Charlottesville, Virginia is home to one of the great documents in human history.” That’s the line former vice president Joe Biden used to finally …
Madonna The French DJ Who Auditioned for Madonnathecut.com - Sarah Spellings Kiddy Smile is known for being a larger-than-life Parisian DJ and singer who showed up at French president Emmanuel Macron’s house wearing a shirt …
Facebook Facebook Anticipates FTC Fine of Up to $5 BillionNew York Magazine - Matt Stieb On Wednesday, Facebook announced that it expected to be fined up to $5 billion by the Federal Trade Commission for privacy violations — the same …
