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The fourth Democratic debate at Otterbein University, outside of Columbus, Ohio, featured the field’s new frontrunner on the hot seat. Elizabeth Warren was on the receiving end of barbs by an aggressive tag team of Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, with an occasional pile on by Joe Biden. The contest …

UPDATE 11/1: “Your Capricious Soul” is now available to stream on digital music services. Michael Stipe has released his new song “Your Capricious Soul,” the singer’s first release since the breakup of R.E.M. in 2011. “I took a long break from music, and I wanted to jump back in,” Stipe …

Listen to an audio version of this story below: On the dusty, heat-blister town of Vacaville, California, halfway between Sacramento and Oakland, sits the bleak squat prison that holds a trim, handsome, highly articulate inmate named Bobby Beausoleil, almost 72, who has spent the past 50 years behind bars for …

The third Democratic debate was a bizarre affair, marked by whimsical outbursts by Kamala Harris (“Hey-y-y-y, Joe” seemed to catch everyone off guard), the unveiling of Yosemite Sam-inspired epithet (Cory Booker’s “Dagnabit”), and heated exchanges between Julian Castro, Joe Biden, and “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg. One candidate who didn’t participate in …

This summer, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have flowed through the streets of Hong Kong, tearing up government property, clashing with police, and demanding justice as they protest the region’s relationship with China. They don’t appear to be going home any time soon. The demonstrations began in earnest in early …

Listen to an audio version of this story below: In the spring of 1990, Rivers Cuomo was 19 years old, and all of his plans were coming undone. The year before, he and his high school metal band, Avant Garde, moved from suburban Connecticut to L.A., where all five members …

Tom Holland, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and some of the stars of the Marvel Cinematic Universe opened up at Disney’s D23 expo about the Spider-Man split between Sony and Marvel Studios. Holland – who played Peter Parker in five MCU films despite Sony owning the classic superhero – didn’t …

Yesterday is a movie full of existential questions: What if the Beatles never happened? What if nobody knew their songs? Would people still fall in love without “Eight Days a Week” to show them how? Would people feel sorry for themselves without “For No One” or “You’ve Got To Hide …

For the 2020 election, Democrats are proposing policies of sweep and ambition not seen since the New Deal or the Great Society. Ideas that would have seemed radical even five years ago — publicly funded college, a Green New Deal, Medicare for All — are now at the top of …

“What’s a to-do list?” Francis Ford Coppola asks, and there’s a long, pregnant pause on the end of the phone line before he answers his own question. “It’s a list of things that you don’t really want to do, or even think about. Everyone you know makes these lists. But …