We’re all amateur food safety inspectors now
I’m standing in the produce aisle of my neighborhood supermarket, between the fresh vegetables receiving their bi-hourly overhead mist and…
Anthony Fauci’s Senate hearing proves we’re still living in 2020
Six years ago, Match.com released an ad in which the devil met his true love: 2020. The couple spent their…
The gospel of science denial, from Galileo to RFK Jr.
The most notorious press conference Donald Trump ever held was the one in which he told a scientist in attendance…
In protecting women from body-shaming, we lost something important
If you’re also a pop culture obsessive, it was probably around early 2025 when alarming photos of Ariana Grande began…
Anthony Bourdain would have hated his own biopic
Director Matt Johnson’s latest feature, “Tony” — a biopic following a young Anthony Bourdain (Dominic Sessa) through his first kitchen…
Trump’s catering-truck farce – Salon.com
Perhaps it is because I’ve been nursing a slight and recent obsession with zany detective movies of the 1960s —…
The entire U.S. economy is basically a giant betting app
As the western United States is gripped by record-shattering wildfires, some unscrupulous people aren’t just contemplating what it will be…
Paramount CEO threatens to relocate company from California
Last month, Paramount Skydance CEO and Trump ally David Ellison threatened to relocate the company out of California in response…
Should Brad Pitt really win an Oscar for acting?
In an Oscars season rife with controversies, shutouts and disappointments, the one seemingly surefire, feel-good figure this year has been Brad…
Brad Pitt’s sobriety story deserves more scrutiny
Just personally speaking, if it were alleged in court documents that I abused my family in an alcohol-fueled tirade that…