At the Hippocrates Wellness Resort in West Palm Beach, Florida, sick people spend small fortunes on a suite of exotic treatments: revitalizing lasers, crystal sound baths, hand-pressed wheatgrass shots, even something called colon hydrotherapy, “a natural method of removing waste from the large intestine without the use of drugs.” The on-site store provides a range […]
The broader job market has remained largely robust amid the Federal Reserve‘s monetary tightening, but you wouldn’t know it if you looked only at the latest headlines about the news media. MSNBC recently fired nearly 100 staffers across nine different shows, including progressive panjandrum Joy Reid, after CNN announced in January that it would cut […]
Huey Pierce Long Jr. met an early demise nearly 90 years ago from an assassin’s bullet, but he remains an enduring figure in U.S. politics. A left-wing Democrat with a populist edge, he became a folk hero in Louisiana while serving as governor and senator and toying with an independent presidential run. He criticized Big […]
There was seemingly no end to the rhetorical indignities women suffered under the Biden administration. First, their federal government referred to them as “birthing people.” Then, they were “menstruators.” They have also been known as “people with vaginas” and other vulgar terms, reducing them to their parts and bodily functions. Under the Trump administration, women […]
If you’ve ever blown out a transmission on a rural highway, had a rock puncture your radiator on a gravel road, or just gotten into an accident on an interstate, you know what a lifesaver tow trucks can be. But now, in the state once more synonymous with car driving than any other, tow trucks […]
ExCeL London is a convention center by the Thames in what used to be the London docks. Once the busiest port in the world, it is now called Docklands, a regenerative marketing concept from the 1980s. The ExCeL could be anywhere, but it had to be here because it had to go somewhere, and nowhere […]
Like a lovers’ quarrel, Apple TV+’s Valentine’s Day release, The Gorge, is likely to split audiences into two mutually uncomprehending camps. For some, a hugely entertaining first hour will prove worth the price of admission, never mind the film’s outright disaster of a second half. Others, not without justice, will skip the climax and denouement altogether, so obviously […]