She Supported Her Husband for 4 Years While His ''Dream Business'' Was Losing Money. Dave Ramsey Says, ‘That''s Not a Dream. That''s a Nightmare’ (finance.yahoo.com)
I Hate To To Say It, But After Looking At These Incredibly Stupid Pictures I Am Completely Convinced Americans Are The Dumbest People On The Planet (news.google.com)
Ryan Murphy’s Sanded-Down Version of “The Shards” - The director’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s metafictional thriller-slash-gay-awakening story is a “Glee”-ified version of its source material. (www.newyorker.com)
The Electability of Abdul El-Sayed - The former public-health official won Michigan’s Democratic primary with an unapologetically progressive platform—and a total defiance of the Party establishment. (www.newyorker.com)
Stella Lefty and the Rise of Nepo-Baby Musicians and “Industry Plants” - There’s a story we tell ourselves on social media any time a child of money or fame vaults into public life. (www.newyorker.com)
What Makes an Adaptation Good? - The kerfuffle over Christopher Nolan’s fidelity to Homer’s Odyssey reflects major questions in the history of cinema. (www.newyorker.com)
How Jordan Harper Reinvented Noir for the Epstein Era - This year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir? (www.newyorker.com)
Our Fauci Diaries, Ourselves - Anthony Fauci became a symbol of truth and integrity during the pandemic. In his diaries, he’s mostly talking about how he “butt called” Barbra Streisand. (www.newyorker.com)
Michigan Primary-Election Map: Live Results - A closely watched Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, carries major implications for the direction of the Party. (www.newyorker.com)
What My Life Would Be Like If All of Those Spam Texts Were Legit - I’d have dozens of packages shipped to me from USPSS, USP, and FidEx that only require my signature to obtain. (www.newyorker.com)
What Do India’s Gen Z Protests Mean for Modi? - A movement of young people frustrated with India’s education system and economy has become the most serious challenge yet to an increasingly authoritarian government. (www.newyorker.com)
What Does It Even Mean to Be a Moderate? - The Michigan Senate primary has turned into a referendum on a word that has never had a fixed meaning. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Donald Trump Talks So Much About Foreign Election Interference - The White House is distorting intelligence assessments instead of working to protect the midterm elections. (www.newyorker.com)
Kevin Warsh Is Facing More Than a Communication Problem - The Fed chair’s biggest challenge is demonstrating his independence from Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
“I Who Have Never Known Men” and “We Were Forbidden,” Reviewed - Jacqueline Harpman wrote her best-known works in the nineteen-nineties, but her fiction’s elegiac loneliness seems to anticipate our own solitary, screen-bound era. (www.newyorker.com)
How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything - The lawyer who showed an outer-borough striver how to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media. (www.newyorker.com)
Robb Moss Is Still Going with the Flow - The documentarian returns to the Grand Canyon for “The Bend in the River,” the third film in his unofficial series on friendship, nature, and the passage of time. (www.newyorker.com)
Extra! Extra! Read All About It . . . Again - At the Old News Newsstand, yesterday’s headlines are today’s hot scoops—discarded Timeses, out-of-vogue Vogues, cool zines, even vintage smut. (www.newyorker.com)
Shouts & Murmurs by Larry Doyle: Freelance Headlines Stupid Onion Editor Rejected - Married Man Still Able to Drink at Collegiate Level; Sloppy Eater Dog’s New Best Friend; and more. (www.newyorker.com)