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The private equity backlash could start at the drive-thru

Elizabeth Warren’s job doesn’t need to be this hard. The Democratic senator from Massachusetts is leading a cadre of largely left-of-center lawmakers in reviving the Stop Wall Street Looting Act, legislation that would curtail the worst tendencies of private equity…
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How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war

In November 2021, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opened an exhibit called “The Electric Dr. Franklin,” describing “Benjamin Franklin’s pioneering contributions to electrical science.” The exhibit explained that, prior to becoming an abolitionist, he had enslaved people in…
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You can buy Julia Child’s house — but not her kitchen

For $6.475 million, you can live in Julia Child’s longtime Cambridge home. You just can’t cook in Julia Child’s kitchen. Child lived in the house for roughly four decades and filmed several of her later television shows there, including “In…
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How Bill Cosby, America’s dad, used TV to betray us

Through the medium of television Bill Cosby has been intimately influencing American perspectives on race, class, how we think about ourselves and, most crucially, how we feel about him, for more than five decades. Give that information a moment to…
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A homecoming for “A Different World”

Five episodes into Netflix’s “A Different World” sequel, Hillman gets a bomb threat. This is a very real part of life for students at historically black colleges and universities, but that doesn’t make it any less frightening. Everyone gathers at…
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We got the original “Resident Evil” films all wrong

In the sixth and final installment of Paul W.S. Anderson’s original “Resident Evil” film franchise, the writer-director — known for his abrasive, nu-metal vulgar auteurism — raises a middle finger of sorts to his detractors. Over 17 years and thousands…
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Is iced coffee really unprofessional at a job interview?

A few weeks ago, I met an acquaintance for coffee at a Cuban café attached to a downtown hostel, where people with backpacks of varying dimensions passed steadily through the lobby. He worked at a nearby university and had messaged…
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