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October 12, 2026 |
Last week, when Pete Hegseth announced that the execution of Nidal Hasan will be livestreamed—which would make it the first public execution in the US in almost a century—I was shocked, if not surprised. Today we have Ta-Nehisi Coates’s column on Donald Trump as the dominant American of our age, and the legacy of a presidency that will prove to have been pivotal in more ways than we can even comprehend right now. On a more enjoyable note, we have Chris Murphy taking on the concept (and therefore accusations) of “queerbaiting,” which he’s asking us to leave in the past. What do you think? Read his commentary here. |
CLAIRE HOWORTHDEPUTY EDITOR |
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The 45th and 47th president has been called consequential, imaginative, influential—sometimes for better, mostly for worse. Ta-Nehisi Coates takes it one beat further in a bid to examine just how pivotal this president will prove to have been. Read more |
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HOLLYWOOD Ben Affleck Has Been Banned From Instagram. Twice. By Roberta Mercuri The Oscar-winning actor says he was banned from the Meta-owned social media platform “twice for impersonating myself.” Read more |
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CULTURE George Clooney Is Mourning Presley Gerber: “It’s The Worst Thing” By Chiara Pizzimenti Presley Gerber, the son of longtime Clooney friends Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, died last month at age 27. Read more |
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Queerbaiting Was a Term for Woke 1.0—It’s Best We Leave It There By Chris Murphy In the past few weeks, the concept of queerbaiting has reared its head in the public discourse again. This writer thinks it’s a term best left in the not-so-distant past. Read more |
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