Native Americans Native Issues Are Finally Getting the Spotlight They Deserve on 2020 CampaignsEsquire - By Charles P. PierceFrank LaMere was one of the strongest activists you never heard of. I met him during one of my reporting trips out to Nebraska regarding our old friend the Keystone XL pipeline, the continent-spanning
Play buttonSports The Idris Elba-Led NBA 2K20 'MyCareer' Trailer Continues a Strange, Beautiful TraditionEsquire - By Brady LangmannGod’s light shines upon whoever writes the scripts for NBA 2K’s MyCareer mode. If you haven’t played one of these through the years—where you make your own player and lead him through whatever storyline
Play buttonSteve Carell Steve Carell Is a Disgraced Journalist in the First Trailer For Apple's Morning ShowEsquire - By Gabrielle BruneyOn Monday, Disney dropped new info about its upcoming streaming service Disney+, including subscription prices and launch dates. But what we haven’t seen is any footage from the original content the House
Water Someone Should Really Think About Doing Something About New Jersey's Water ProblemEsquire - By Charles P. PierceI hope you won't mind if we talk about water again, because it's something of interest here in the shebeen, and not just because it's how we make the whiskey last longer, either. We now learn that Newark
Recession Donald Trump's Campaign Is Becoming an Exercise in Public InsanityEsquire - By Charles P. PierceIf the economy goes south, as a lot of people are warning us it will, then it's comforting to know that the president* already is only a baby step away from blaming the Gnomes Of Zurich. From The New Times:
Joe Kennedy Massachusetts Democratic Politics Lost Its Mind Over the WeekendEsquire - By Charles P. PierceCOMMONWEALTH—A point of personal privilege—Democratic politics here in the Commonwealth (God save it!) lost a bit of its mind over the weekend. The New York Times tells us that Rep. Joe Kennedy, who happens
Men's Fashion 3 Easy Fall Outfits That You Can Wear Everywhere This AutumnEsquire - By Esquire EditorsFall is nearly here, which is very good news for your style. Because once the cooler weather rolls in, it means you don't have to settle for wearing as little as possible to stave off the heat. Instead,
Mindhunter The True Story of Paul Bateson Is Much More Fascinating Than We See in Mindhunter Season TwoEsquire - By Matt MillerIn the beginning of the sixth episode of Mindhunter Season Two, the show's FBI agents are discussing a series of murders in Manhattan during the mid '70s. As Gregg Smith begins explaining: The bodies dismembered
Aerobic Exercise The 10 Best Cardio Machines At The Gym, According To Certified TrainersEsquire - By Elizabeth BacharachHear the word “cardio” and immediately groan? TBH, same. And that's because I can't seem to break up with the image of college-aged me counting the remaining milliseconds while wildly running (á la Phoebe
Marilyn Monroe A New Documentary Claims Secret Photos Were Taken of Marilyn Monroe After Her DeathEsquire - By Gabrielle BruneyMarilyn Monroe is a true fixture in American popular imagination—funny, beautiful, and dead before she could be mocked for succumbing to the vicissitudes of time, or for fighting the clock with needle,
Jay Z The Backlash to Jay-Z's NFL Deal Is Just BeginningEsquire - By Brady LangmannAs soon as we heard that Jay-Z’s entertainment company, Roc Nation, was teaming up with the NFL, we knew that we didn’t hear the whole story. And certainly hadn’t heard the backlash yet. The news hit week,
Play buttonRupert Murdoch Succession Has Become a Shakespearean Media Horror StoryEsquire - By Matt MillerIn the closing moments of Succession Episode Two, we see a dead-eyed Kendall Roy toss a pack of shoplifted batteries into a Manhattan street corner trash can. Why? Maybe just because he can. Or maybe it
Play buttonMindhunter Mindhunter Spotlighted the Serial Killer William Henry Hance. But There's a Lot More to the Story.Esquire - By Gabrielle BruneyThe second season of Netflix’s Mindhunter delves into some of the most notorious crimes of the 1960s and ‘70s. But the show also examines less well-remembered cases. One such story featured in the new
George R.R. Martin Game of Thrones Author George R.R. Martin Says the Show's Ending Won't Change His BooksEsquire - By Gabrielle BruneyIn a new interview with The Guardian, author George R.R. Martin revealed that he’s not going to let Game of Thrones’ ending—or the backlash it sparked—change the plots of the last two books in his A Song
Allergens The Best Air Purifier for a Breath of Fresh AirEsquire - By Popular Mechanics EditorsGood indoor air quality is important. In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, there is growing evidence that the air inside our homes can be even more polluted than the air outside.
Star Trek: The Next Generation You Can Now Wear Picard's Perfect Face-Palm on Your ChestEsquire - By Cameron SherrillWith this summer's Comic Con announcement that Picard, staring the only Picard in my book (Patrick Stewart), is coming in early 2020, it's understandable if you've been looking to let loose your inner
Play buttonDanny McBride HBO's The Righteous Gemstones is Just a Few Prayers Shy of DivineEsquire - By Justin KirklandSubtlety has never been a hallmark of the megachurch industry. Whether it's the '80s pastel sets from Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Praise the Lord network or the stadium-style worship concerts from more
Mindhunter Mindhunter Featured a Real Photograph of Serial Killer William 'Junior' PierceEsquire - By Gabrielle BruneyThe second season of Netflix's Mindhunter zeroes in on a few infamous crimes, including the Manson cult killings, the Atlanta Child Murders, and the crimes of Dennis Rader, who is better known as the killer
News Shell Workers Were Reportedly Told They Had to Attend a Trump Speech in Order to Get PaidEsquire - By Gabrielle BruneyWorkers at a Shell plant were reportedly forced to attend an appearance by visiting speaker Donald Trump earlier this week, or forego their pay for the day. And according to The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
Peter Fonda 'Holden Caulfield at 27': Esquire's 1968 Profile of Peter FondaEsquire - By Rex ReedPeter Fonda was lying on his back in a bathing suit of old cut-off chinos, out by his swimming pool up on Lime Orchard Road in Beverly Hills. He lives there, more or less a part of the society he’s been
Atlanta Airport The Atlanta Child Murders Are Mindhunter's Most Contentious True Crime Story YetEsquire - By Emma DibdinThroughout the first season of Mindhunter, FBI agents Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) spent months on the road interviewing incarcerated serial killers, aiming to glean insights
Peter Fonda Peter Fonda, What I've LearnedEsquire - By Mike SagerThis article originally appeared in the January 2009 issue of Esquire. Peter Fonda died Tuesday at the age of 79. I was born famous, so right off the bat, fame meant nothing to me. I could dig the coolest,
Men's Fashion Getting David Beckham's Impeccable Haircut Is, Surprisingly, Pretty EasyEsquire - By Jonathan EvansDavid Beckham has Very Good Hair. This is news to exactly no one. But, for much of his career, the legendary footballer has opted for styles that aren't exactly easy to emulate. His much-lauded pompadour?
Celebrity News The Mindhunter Cast Explains the BTK Killer's Role in Season Two and BeyondEsquire - By Emma DibdinWhen Mindhunter aired its first season back in 2017, true crime fans were quick to identify that the mysterious ADT security worker played by Sonny Valicenti–who haunted the opening moments of every episode–was
Dogs The 11 Best Gifts to Get Dog Lovers (and Their Dogs)Esquire - By Esquire EditorsDogs: the only good thing left to bring humanity together. In fact, there's a smile on our face right now just thinking about all the good pups out there living their good pup lives. Know someone who'd
Maria Butina Doug Coe Was One Of the Most Powerful Men in Politics You've Never Heard OfEsquire - By Gabrielle BruneyThe National Prayer Breakfast is supposed to seem like just another dull Washington ritual, a holy Seersucker Thursday, a divine Correspondent’s Dinner. But the ostensibly spiritual event is the public
Jane Fonda Peter Fonda, Who Defined Counterculture in Easy Rider, Has Died at 79Esquire - By Matt MillerPeter Fonda, the iconic actor who helped define counterculture in 1969's Easy Rider, has died at the age of 79, People reports. Fonda died after suffering respiratory failure due to lung cancer, according
Ebola It's Going to Take Decades to Wring the Crazy Out of the Fabric of This CountryEsquire - By Charles P. Pierce(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week From The Blog's Favourite Living Canadian) It's been a while since we checked in on Matt Shea, the crusader monk of the Washington state legislature.
Bugatti The New $8.8 Million Bugatti Centodieci Is a Retro '90s Hypercar DreamEsquire - By Kevin SintumuangBugatti unveiled the Centodieci, a retro-tastic hypercar that is based on the wonderfully wedgy Bugatti EB110 of the 90s at the Quail Motorsports Gathering in California today. If you’re finding just many
Native Americans The President* Has Slurs for Native Peoples. Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan.Esquire - By Charles P. PierceIn front of his usual backdrop of grinning suckers Thursday night, El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago trotted out his greatest hits to the roaring cackles of a few thousand of his fans. Inevitably, he got around
