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May 8, 2026
The Hopelessness of ‘The Audacity’
In AMC’s merciless satire, the tech lords are extracting all they can from the business (and us) before everything goes to hell.
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April 6, 2026
In Savannah Guthrie’s Return to ‘Today,’ a Rare TV Example of How to Live With Not Knowing
With her mother still missing, the “Today” host’s comeback was a rare TV example of learning to live with not knowing.
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March 11, 2026
Through Violent Memes on Social Media, Trump Promotes the War on Iran
A series of White House social-media videos turn the carnage in Iran into gleeful entertainment.
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February 23, 2026
‘Survivor’ Is America
It’s our greatest game and our truest mirror. And in its tiki-torch-festooned way, it’s captured our society as an ever-changing collection of tribes.
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