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Ving Rhames: Ethan. You need to put the garbage on the curb tonight, so the garbage men can pick it up tomorrow

My father was a Nazi hunter, until he was killed in the Lockerbie bombing, when I was four. Now, a man will stand trial for the crime. What does it mean, after nearly forty years, to seek justice for the crimes of history? My new cover story for NYT Magazine: nytimes.com/2025/05/20/mag…

Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just An Accident’ takes joint lead on Cannes Jury Grid while ‘Fuori’ is in last place. Read more here: screendaily.com/news/jafar-pan…

between the Ed Sheeran song and a possible Trump deal, Iran is having a great year

me when my wife asks what we should cook for dinner

It was a mini-scandal (correctly) that the Biden WH cleaned up the “the only garbage is his supporters” gaffe by adding an apostrophe (“his supporter’s”) in the official transcript. No transcript, no problem!

Everyone's afraid of the bond market: the conservative justices insert a "don't worry, we're not going to blow up the Fed" note in a shadow docket order in a case not involving the Fed. supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf…

My new essay for The New York Times looks at why today's most prominent fans of Tolkien's epic "The Lord of the Rings" are Silicon Valley tech lords like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, and politicians on the far right in Europe and the United States. How did a trilogy of novels

If you want to read something interesting, challenging, and powerful today, read Steven Pinker's essay about Harvard's internal and external problems. nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opi…

A Diddy trial courtroom artist reveals how she captures the hip-hop mogul's 'dark side' businessinsider.com/courtroom-arti…

why is this the headline

The Weeknd's deranged vanity project, Hurry Up Tomorrow, is the most exquisitely terrible film of the year. It's an all-timer, in the best and worst way. nathanrabin.substack.com/p/the-weeknd-i…

Phew. Good thing I didn't onshore my factory to the US.

really enjoyed reading this nytimes.com/2025/05/25/mag…