By KATIE WORKMAN On a recent visit to see my son at the University of California, Davis, I wandered into a lab at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science … as one does. A bunch of students were preparing for a tasting to evaluate some of the strawberry breeds they have been…
Katy Perry performs in Sydney, Australia. | Don Arnold/WireImage These days, it seems like anything could be a recession indicator. Press-on nails. Strip club habits. Lena Dunham’s exodus from New York. But how do we really know if there’s an impending economic contraction? “There’s a super wide variety of what qualifies as a so-called ‘recession…
Sean Diddy Combs, who went by P. Diddy, and Cassie Ventura, his girlfriend at the time, attend the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City. | Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Huffington Post Among all the lurid details and…
Solid State Books, an independent bookstore in the H Street Corridor in Washington, DC, in February 2019. | Calla Kessler for The Washington Post via Getty Images Every generation has a small group of young fiction writers who make it: They top bestseller lists, win prizes, and become household names. And for decades — well,…
A 1959 illustration by Frank Tinsley of a futuristic spaceship powered by a large solar wind sail. One of the most momentous developments of the new Trump era is how major billionaires in the tech industry — frequently known as the broligarchs — have thrown their weight behind the president. During the 2024 election, they offered…
The crowd at Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour at Foro Sol in Mexico City on August 24, 2023. | Getty Images for TAS Rights Management When we see our favorite artist perform at a stadium concert, we’re expecting a divine experience. After all, attending a massive show is the closest thing the average person might…
What if something terrible happened to you, and you weren’t able to remember it? That’s one of the questions at the center of Amy Griffin’s memoir, The Tell, which is quickly becoming one of the year’s most talked-about books. Griffin’s buzzy bestseller doesn’t offer easy answers or tidy conclusions about its dark subject matter —…
Last summer, I quit Spotify, and wrote about it with the rather unsubtle headline “Why I quit Spotify.” My reasons remain sound: The software had become clunky, the ads relentless, and the Sabrina Carpenter songs too inescapable. I wanted to find a better music streaming service. It gives me no pleasure to report that a…
A construction laborer works on a bridge in Los Angeles. | Gary Leonard/Getty Images When a Democrat contemplates their nation’s biggest problems today, minimum lot sizes in suburban housing codes probably don’t rank very high on the list. After all, the US president is a reality star turned insurrectionist, who’s ordering investigations of his political…
It’s been 12 years since Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie published her last novel, Americanah, to overwhelming acclaim. In the time since, she’s delivered a viral TED talk on feminism, been sampled by Beyoncé, been denounced by students for anti-trans speech, and denounced those students in turn for cancel culture. Now, at last, Adichie has finally released…
