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A scan of a teenage Ivanka Trump in Teen Vogue. (Instagram/@thankyouatoosa)

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The Amy Astley era.

on her favorite teen magazine and its embrace of nepotism babies, before Gen Z made the term a thing.

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Teen Vogue's "nepo babies"

Illustration by Kyle Knapp

Snap crackle pop.

writes that ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) has returned television back to the revolutionary-adjacent art form that Walter Benjamin saw film being 86 years ago.

Streaming broke TV

John Hinckley Jr. 

Who's afraid of John Hinckley Jr.?

on how to think about the music career of Reagan’s wannabe assassin.

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The no redemption tour

Backrooms

Fighting for the future of The Backrooms.

on a war between world builders and purists on r/creepy (and off).

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Liminal dust-up

Phil Mickelson LIV Golf

The agony and ecstasy of Phil Mickelson.

unpacks the golf drama you didn’t know you cared about.


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LIV laugh love

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We’re all Nancy Drew now.

on the Sartorialist breakup and niche celebrity drama forensics.

Jenny Walton

Micro-investigations

Virtual U2

What is a web3 music festival?

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This is Happening

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“I thought Quibi was a thing."

Slava P. talks to Daisy Alioto about music discovery and the "algorithm" in Canadian federal prison. 

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Prison tapes

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