Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic reported on Thursday that President Trump doesn’t have quite as much respect for the military as he claims, to put it mildly. Goldberg lists several examples. The most prominent is an account of why, during a 2018 trip to Paris, Trump declined to visit the …
Read More »Welcome to Nashville, Where We're Just Realizing There's a Pandemic
Last weekend, in a new building with sweeping views of the city’s skyline in a gentrifying neighborhood in East Nashville, organizers advertised a party on social media dubbed “The V.I.P. Viewing of the Fashion House.” Masks were scarce. Hookahs were plentiful. And bodies by the hundreds packed and writhed in …
Read More »Racism in Porn Industry Under Scrutiny Amid Nationwide Protests
Earlier this year, when adult performer Ana Foxxx appeared on the set for a shoot for porn director Kayden Kross, she was thrilled. It was an orgy scene featuring Kross’s husband, Manuel Ferrara, and three other black women — a rarity in the adult industry. “There aren’t that many roles. …
Read More »'He Shook the World': George Floyd's Legendary Houston Legacy
Cal Wayne’s words come fast, toppling over one another. “I ain’t gon’ lie it’s devastating,” the Houston rapper says. “I idolized him.” Then Cal describes the morning he received a text from a friend that changed his life, about an event that would lead to millions of Americans taking to …
Read More »Pub-Crawl Playlist
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, let us raise a dirty glass to the spirit of Irish music, wherever in the world it shows up. And like the Irish people themselves, Irish music shows up everywhere, usually a few moments after the bottles get opened. There’s always been plenty of …
Read More »Normani: A Pop Perfectionist Makes Her Move
Some pop stars might go through a few different versions of the video for their first solo hit; Normani went through about 50. Written with Max Martin and Normani’s tourmate Ariana Grande, “Motivation” was a blast of airy, sexy, rhythmically savvy pop. In the video, released last summer, Normani romps …
Read More »Nick Hornby: Why a 'High Fidelity' Reboot Made Perfect Sense
You have to play the long game, if you want to survive as a writer. The publication of High Fidelity, in 1995, was just the first step in an ambitious 25-year plan: a successful American edition, even though I set the book in London (check); a much-loved Hollywood movie (check); …
Read More »The Battle for the Senate
The fight to dislodge Donald Trump from the presidency has sparked unprecedented interest in the 2020 Democratic primary, drawing dozens of candidates, including no fewer than seven sitting senators. But the fight to wrest the Senate from Republican control — and oust Mitch McConnell as majority leader — is arguably …
Read More »In Bill Barr, Trump Found His Dick Cheney
Two months into his ill-begotten presidency, when Donald Trump flew into a temper tantrum over Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ insistence on recusing himself from overseeing the Russia investigation, he famously bawled, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” Cohn, in case you haven’t seen the documentary that took its title from the president’s …
Read More »Welcome to 'Useful Idiots,' a New Rolling Stone Podcast
Rolling Stone is pleased to announce a launch this week of Useful Idiots, a news and politics podcast I’ll be co-hosting with my friend and colleague, Katie Halper. Useful Idiots is an iconoclastic take on the political podcast. Imagine a standard cable-news commentary show, and we’ll be shooting for its …
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