Somewhere in Hollywood, some algorithm-driven Westworld robot of a TV executive has apparently decided that the real threat is human life itself. How else to explain the decision to cast former White House communications director Anthony “the Mooch” Scaramucci on the next season of Celebrity Big Brother?
The Angle: Beloved Departed EditionR.I.P.: Today we lost Anthony Bourdain, who, Josh Keating writes, was the very model of how to be an American abroad: “open-minded, always curious, and unafraid to sometimes look ridiculous.” We’re revisiting Isaac Chotiner’s… Read MoreTwitter Broke a Bunch of the Weird Bots That Make It BetterFor a few hours this week, the infinite screaming stopped.
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… Read MoreAnthony Bourdain Helped Us Seek Out Difference, Even in Places That Didn’t Welcome ItThe first time I ever read Anthony Bourdain, I was more than a decade late. It was 2016 in Prague, and I had to read a chapter of A Cook’s Tour for my travel writing class. “How to Drink Vodka” was the story of Bourdain’s tri… Read MoreRod Rosenstein Should RecuseOn Tuesday, CNN published Sen. Lindsey Graham’s one-page letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. He concisely asked three questions that have cast a small shadow on the Robert Mueller investigation for more than a y… Read MoreThe Angle: Tamper, Tamper EditionIt’s enough: Renato Mariotti and Alex Whiting think the evidence that Paul Manafort tampered with witnesses is quite convincing. Here’s their case.
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