I ordered ice-cream cakes from Dairy Queen, Baskin-Robbins, and Cold Stone Creamery. The best dominated in all but one category. (www.businessinsider.com)
I left my job as a software engineer to be a baker. I joke that I threw my master''s down the drain, but my choice has paid off. (www.businessinsider.com)
Graham Platner’s Point of No Return - Following an allegation of sexual assault, the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine is considering his future. What would his exit mean for the race, and for the broader direction of American politics? (www.newyorker.com)
The U.S. Crashes Out of the World Cup - Despite a strong start to the tournament, and an egregious intervention by President Trump into FIFA’s suspension of its star striker, the U.S. men’s soccer team couldn’t keep up with Belgium. (www.newyorker.com)
A New American Soccer Culture Is Emerging - A decade ago, the fandom around Major League Soccer and the U.S. men’s national team was very white and very imitative. That’s starting to change. (www.newyorker.com)
Skarsgård Green-Card Marriages - Each one of our lucky clients will be expertly matched with a Skarsgård sibling, which are indeterminate in number. (www.newyorker.com)
How Political Is This Supreme Court? - The legal commentator Elie Honig thinks that the Trump-appointed Justices are getting unfair criticism. (www.newyorker.com)
David Wain’s Wet Hot American Comedy - The comedian and director talks about the State, making his first film in eight years, and the challenges of creating original comedy in Hollywood’s bleak landscape. (www.newyorker.com)
The Summer When Everyone Wanted a Good, Good Night - In 2009, every big hit sounded like a version of “I Gotta Feeling,” by the Black Eyed Peas. (www.newyorker.com)
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Marriage Plot - The nuptials, which drew some of the most famous people in the world to Madison Square Garden, promised a kind of narrative closure for Swifties: after years of singing about imagined weddings, the pop star’s life was finally catching up with her art. (www.newyorker.com)
Ryan McGinley Tries to Photograph What It Means to Be Alive - In “Night Shift,” his first New York show in eight years, the photographer brings his travelling bacchanal home to the city’s streets. (www.newyorker.com)
American Idols - Who’s your favorite American? We asked a range of luminaries, and the answers included scientists, playwrights, pop stars, bureaucrats—and one cartoon character. (www.newyorker.com)
The Intimate Legacies of a White-Supremacist Coup - A racist takeover in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, has reverberated across generations as a reminder of American democracy’s terrifying vulnerability. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump Celebrates America’s Two-Hundred-and-Fiftieth Birthday - At the Great American State Fair, in Washington, D.C., and at the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Library, in North Dakota, the President casts himself as the rightful heir to American greatness. (www.newyorker.com)
The Unprecedented Profiteering Revealed by Donald Trump’s Financial Disclosure - The President cashed in on his office to the tune of billions of dollars last year, largely through the sale of crypto tokens. His investors weren’t so fortunate. (www.newyorker.com)
Why The Last Battle of the American Revolution Was Fought In India - The conflicts that took place elsewhere in the world have receded from our collective imagination, but the American rebellion was, in many ways, a sideshow to a far greater imperial drama. (www.newyorker.com)
An American Playlist - As the country celebrates its semiquincentennial, the hosts of Critics at Large reflect on its past, present, and future—through songs. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Have Liberals Abandoned a Moral Reading of the Constitution? - From slavery to abortion, conservatives and liberals alike have reached for “natural law” to resolve many of the country’s most important cases. But, in recent years, the balance has shifted. (www.newyorker.com)