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…
Rapper Drake at “Lil Baby & Friends Birthday Celebration Concert” at State Farm Arena on December 9, 2022, in Atlanta. | Prince Williams/WireImage To borrow a phrase from our foremost cultural observer, Azealia Banks, the boys are fighting. For almost a year now, Drake and Kendrick Lamar have been embroiled in one of rap’s most…
A new memoir by a former Facebook employee promoted Meta to take legal action this month. | Kenny Holston/Pool/AFP via Getty Images In a 2019 speech at Georgetown University, Mark Zuckerberg made a bold statement. Rather than to help college kids get dates, he claimed, Facebook was invented as a platform for “free expression.” Six…
Good night, Owl. | Arnold Lobel/Courtesy of HarperCollins This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. I’m working on a longer piece, so I wanted to bring you something a little lighter for this week’s newsletter. I’ve been reading Arnold Lobel’s Owl at Home with my…
Next Page is a newsletter written by senior correspondent and book critic Constance Grady. She covers books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. To get new editions in your inbox, subscribe here. Any time I travel to a new place for which there is no Rick Steves guidebook, I feel a little cheated. Steves, with…
