Hong Kong street food moved indoors
The smell hits first, garlic and char on skewered meat, chiles brushed over buns, oyster sauce mingling with the syrupy…
Cornell has a new dorm rule: Don’t butcher bears
Cornell University has clarified that its dorm kitchens are for cooking food — not butchering bears. The upstate New York…
Ariana Grande fans need to see “Maddie’s Secret”
In the music video for Ariana Grande’s latest single, “Petal” — the title track off her eighth album, released last…
HBO’s “Watchmen” takes on white supremacy — Damon Lindelof promises to “troll the white savior”
Those anticipating HBO’s series adaptation of “Watchmen,” the classic comic book series co-created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, may…
What the Ted Lasso Way doesn’t get about women in sports
Six years ago, “Ted Lasso” reminded us that many winning TV shows are the result of the right sentiment landing…
Fauci is an easy scapegoat for pandemic revisionists
Dr. Anthony Fauci is under congressional scrutiny following an appearance before a Senate committee last week, in which the former…
“Watchmen” is a brutally provocative reckoning of alternate history
On May 31, 1921, an armed white mob poured into Tulsa, Oklahoma’s majority African-American Greenwood district and began setting it…
Power, respect and conscience: How the women of “Fargo” manage (up) in a man’s world
“This is not a story about a woman who made the best of traditional skills . . . This is…
“The Shards” is oozing with Bret Easton Ellis vibes
White drugs. Underage drinking. Absentee parents. Nonstop parties. Oh, to be a rich teenager in the 1980s, says “The Shards”…
SpaceX’s rocket trashes the moon
A version of this essay first appeared in Crash Course, Salon’s free morning newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like…