We Aren’t Ready for the Next Pandemic. This Game Proves It
On a Friday morning in October, about 100 high school and college students gathered in a Utah ballroom to play a game. Some students were...
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How Jenni Konner Helped ‘Nobody Wants This’ Go Deeper
The veteran television writer Jenni Konner knows how to tune out bad press. After all, she spent six seasons as the co-showrunner of HBO’s Girls,...
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The True Story Behind Blue Moon and Lorenz Hart
For the director Richard Linklater, the tone of his new film Blue Moon, about the lyricist Lorenz Hart, was obvious from the jump. “It’s like,...
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Pope Leo is Increasingly Defending Immigrants in the U.S.
In a ceremonial throne room at the Vatican last week, Pope Leo stood before a group of visiting American Bishops and Catholic leaders as they...
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The True Story Behind Hulu’s Football Comedy ‘Chad Powers’
Russ Holliday had everything but a national championship. As star quarterback of the Oregon Ducks, he marched his team to the brink of victory, a...
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Ben Stiller on His New Documentary About His Parents
Ben Stiller didn’t want to insert himself into his documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost. The actor and director intended to make a movie...
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How Ukraine Gamified Drone Warfare
One afternoon this spring, Mykhailo Fedorov, a minister in the wartime government of Ukraine, turned up the volume on his laptop and played a video...
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The True Story Behind ‘The Lost Bus’ and the Camp Fire
Paul Greengrass has always been interested in depicting the real world on-screen. Starting out in the documentary world in his 20s, he sharpened the signature...
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The True Story of Mark Kerr, Subject of The Smashing Machine
The day before the premiere of The Smashing Machine at the Venice Film Festival earlier this week, former mixed martial arts fighter Mark Kerr describes...
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How Mike Johnson Became Trump’s Speaker
The Brief August 7, 2025 Mike Johnson wins for the White House, U.K. police plan arrests at a Palestine Action protest, and more Skip backward...
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True Story Behind ‘Smoke’ on Apple TV+
The South Pasadena, Calif., hardware store thrummed with the usual rhythms of a Wednesday night: customers browsing shelves, cash registers chiming, the low hum of...
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Celine Song’s Journey From Matchmaking to ‘Materialists’
A decade ago, before Celine Song scored two Oscar nominations for her debut film, Past Lives, she was a struggling playwright searching for odd jobs...