11-20 The 4 Smartest Quantum Computing Stocks to Buy for 1,000 (Hint: IonQ, Rigetti Computing, and D-Wave Quantum Didn''t Make the Cut) (finance.yahoo.com)
11-06 Voters on Tuesday rewarded Democrats who addressed economic costs. Hours later, Trump said he delivered an ''economic miracle.'' (www.politico.com)
19:00 Dev Hynes Returns as Blood Orange - Also: the kamancheh playing of Kayhan Kalhor, Ethan Lipton’s surrealist “The Seat of Our Pants,” our writers’ holiday traditions, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
19:00 “Hamnet” Feels Elemental, but Is It Just Highly Effective Grief Porn? - In Chloé Zhao’s film, adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, the death of a child gives rise to the creation of a literary masterpiece. (www.newyorker.com)
08:10 “Wicked: For Good” Is Very, Very Bad - In the second of two movies adapted from the Broadway musical, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo battle fascism, bigotry, and some fairly dreadful filmmaking. (www.newyorker.com)
07:51 Dick Cheney’s Long, Strange Goodbye - On seeing Rachel Maddow at the former Vice-President’s funeral, while Donald Trump threatened Democrats on social media with death by hanging. (www.newyorker.com)
05:29 The Ghosts of Girlhoods Past in “Sound of Falling” - Mascha Schilinski’s dark, century-spanning ensemble drama sees four generations of women take up spectral residence in a German farmhouse. (www.newyorker.com)
03:35 The World-Shifting Grooves of Fela Kuti - Jad Abumrad’s new podcast, “Fela Kuti: Fear No Man,” shows how one musician created both a genre and a way of challenging those in power. (www.newyorker.com)
03:15 A Startup’s Bid to Dim the Sun - The gloomy arguments in favor of solar geoengineering are compelling; so are the even gloomier counter-arguments. (www.newyorker.com)
11-20 Lesser-Known Celebrity-Owned Alcohol Brands - Featuring Walton Goggins’s Weirdly Hot Jalapeño Tequila and Sydney Sweeney’s Pure White Rum. (www.newyorker.com)
11-20 In “Pluribus,” Utopia Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be - Artists and thinkers have long fixated on the notion of an ideal society—but these experiments, in fiction and in life, inevitably fall short. Why are we still drawn in by the possibility of perfection? (www.newyorker.com)
11-20 “This World of Tomorrow” and “Oedipus” Dramatize the Power of the Past - Tom Hanks plays a time-travelling tech titan, and Mark Strong and Lesley Manville star in a modern tragedy. (www.newyorker.com)
11-20 Family Estrangement Is on the Rise. Are Politics to Blame? - In recent years, severing ties with family members over political differences has become increasingly normalized. Is going “no contact” a necessary boundary, or a harmful overcorrection? (www.newyorker.com)
11-20 What We Talk About When We Talk About Dignity - The political philosopher Lea Ypi discusses four books about the inviolable quality of dignity. (www.newyorker.com)
11-20 The Sikh-Separatist Assassination Plot - A murder in Canada and an attempted one in New York suggest a transnational campaign of violence that has imperilled Indian diplomacy with the West. (www.newyorker.com)
11-19 The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon - At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set about championing writers like Kerouac and Faulkner as uniquely American. (www.newyorker.com)
11-19 A Development Economist Returns to What He Left Behind - Paul Collier spent decades studying the poorest countries on earth. Now he advises struggling towns in the place where he grew up. (www.newyorker.com)
11-19 A Holiday Gift Guide: The Newest, Strangest Gadgets and Apps - Our columnist on digital culture suggests technology—or anti-technology technology—to give this holiday season. (www.newyorker.com)
11-19 How M.B.S. Won Back Washington - After the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi leader became a pariah. He’s been slowly rehabilitated, and is now being celebrated in the Oval Office. (www.newyorker.com)
11-19 Lives in Upheaval After an Eviction, in “Last Days on Lake Trinity” - Charlotte Cooley’s short film follows three women as they navigate months of uncertainty after the shuttering of a Florida mobile-home park. (www.newyorker.com)
11-19 Nick Fuentes Is Not Just Another Alt-Right Boogeyman - The rise of the white-nationalist streamer should worry us even more than it already does. (www.newyorker.com)