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A new company is bringing the engineering savvy of rocket science to the design of the high-heeled shoe. Can stilettos that are actually comfortable to wear change centuries’ worth of symbolism?
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Come Watch Election With Us
When Hillary Clinton met Reese Witherspoon, the politician had a good way of breaking the ice: “Everybody talks to me…
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TBS The Anger of Samantha Bee
Her latest Full Frontal episode is a reminder of how deeply the election's outrage has permeated American culture.
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Reuters / Shannon Stapleton The Ballad of Ken Bone
On what might have been the most depressing night of the 2016 campaign so far, citizens found their hero—not on the stage, but in the seats.
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MOMA The Long (and Short) History of the Choker
Delicacy and violence, danger and control—the necklace of the moment evokes more than the grunge of the ’90s.
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Who Cares If a Politician Is Likable?
One of the election-season clichés that has been a standby in previous cycles, and that has been obliterated in this…
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Hulu Rom, Calm: The Mindy Project's New Spin on Coupling Up
The Hulu show is the latest to explore that most modern of things: the absence of romance.
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Netflix I Drank Coffee Like a Gilmore Girl
To promote the show’s return, Netflix set up 200 pop-ups across the U.S. to give fans free caffeine ... and an extra shot of nostalgia.
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Europa Editions / Katie Martin / The Atlantic Elena Ferrante and the Cost of Being an Author
Who does she really belong to?
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NBC Friday Night Lights Democratized TV Drama
The NBC show, which premiered 10 years ago today, operated under the assumption that every person in the series had a story worth telling.
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AP How to Pronounce Everything
The new book You’re Saying It Wrong promises to help you avoid that most modern of pitfalls: revealing yourself to be a hopeless ignoramus.
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Come Watch the West Wing Debate Episode With Us
This week’s presidential debate! It was … something, right? (Joe Biden summed things up well, I thought, when he told…
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The Candidate and the Sequel That Never Was
Jeff, the J.S. reader who wrote in before with great thoughts about The Candidate, followed up with a fascinating…
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Wikimedia Commons How Pop Culture Tells Women to Shut Up
Sady Doyle’s new book, Trainwreck, explores the many ways the U.S. (and its media, and its paparazzi, and its Donald Trump) continue to demean the ladyfolk.
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Joe Raedle / Getty Lester Holt Did a Great Job
He didn’t “disappear” from his debate-moderation duties—he simply recognized what a two-person conversation is all about.
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The Candidate Explores the Political Spectacle
J.S.—a reader who first voted in 1976 and has seen The Candidate, for the record, “four…
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NBC In The West Wing’s Debate Episode, Politics Is a Game
The show is a reminder that face-offs between candidates are a lot like big sporting events, with clear winners and losers.
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40 Years Later, Is The Candidate Still Satire?
This week, for our inaugural Political Theater conversation, Atlantic staffers and I watched your most-requested movie: The Candidate, the 1972…
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CBS It Would Take the Old MacGyver to Save the New MacGyver
The long-running show’s CBS reboot is long on tribute but low on ingenuity.
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Warner Bros. Storks Is a Kids' Movie That Is Not for Kids
The animated film from the writer of Forgetting Sarah Marshall is about parenthood … and corporate culture … and work-life balance.
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Scott Kowalchyk / CBS Michelle Obama Gave an SNL-Worthy Performance on The Late Show
On Tuesday, the First Lady flexed her acting muscles with Stephen Colbert.
