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Photo: Fabio Lovino/HBO Saxon Ratliff, the protein-shake–blending, muscle-bound bro at the center of the latest season of The White Lotus, is the man of our moment. Played with impish glee by Patrick Schwarzenegger, Saxon is the sort of young male we’re supposed to care a lot about these days: scornful of political correctness, indifferent to […]

Photo: Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post/Getty Images The Saturday that Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge of the federal district court in Washington, D.C., was assigned the case challenging Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, he was not dressed for the occasion. The case had been filed alongside an urgent motion to prevent

Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Donald Trump has made tariffs a staple of his second term, levying a flurry of taxes on foes and neighbors alike as an extension of his “America First” mantra. The president has signaled that there are even more tariffs on the horizon, promising to institute reciprocal taxes against most of the

Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images For all his success in imposing his will on the federal government, Donald Trump may be deliberately engineering his own political downfall by mishandling the very job he was most certainly elected to perform: stewardship of the economy. The risks he’s running were impressively summarized by Washington Post economics columnist Heather

Photo: Jake Rosenberg/Netflix Meghan Markle has taken a lot of flak for her two recent business endeavors: a Netflix lifestyle show and her product line, As ever. The eight-episode series With Love, Meghan pioneered “new frontiers in unrelatability,” per Vulture, as the Duchess poured things from one container into a prettier container and passive-aggressively informed

Photo: Chet Strange/Getty Images The Democratic Party’s biggest current star is an 83-year-old who has never technically belonged to it. Bernie Sanders continues to barnstorm across America, drawing tens of thousands of people at every destination, all of whom are desperate to combat Donald Trump, or at least hear from a politician who vocalizes their

Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg/Getty Images The president’s eldest sons have taken time out of their busy schedules promoting questionable crypto companies on behalf of their dad to launch a crypto-mining company of their very own. On Monday, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. announced the launch of a firm called American Bitcoin. Coming soon, the

Photo: Bonnie Cash/Bloomberg/Getty Images For many Americans, the big political question is how much of this country as we have known it will be left when Donald Trump leaves the White House in 2029. In an apparent effort to troll Trump’s detractors, MAGA folk keep calling for a third Trump term. And the president himself

Photo: Netflix Spoiler alert: This story contains a major twist in the new Netflix series Greed & Gold: The Hunt for Fenn’s Treasure, a docuseries based on the New York Magazine story “The Great 21st-Century Treasure Hunt,” by Benjamin Wallace. In late summer of 2020, when most people I knew were still keeping their social

Photo: Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minnesota Star Tribune/Getty Images Every Democrat seems to have their own diagnosis for why the party lost power in Washington last year, but only one of them was on the vice-presidential ticket. Minnesota governor Tim Walz catapulted himself over other Democrats to be Vice-President Kamala Harris’s running mate by famously calling Republicans, especially