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JD Vance’s Name Change Is Just One More of His Battles Against Periods (This Time, His Own)
What’s in a name? When you’re “JD Vance,” who is building his brand on deleting women’s rights, it’s complicated.
By Erin Vanderhoof
Watching
The 2024 Summer Olympics Are Best as a Streaming Event
Watching the Paris games via the Peacock app has greatly expanded our Olympics diet.
By Richard Lawson
Trump Claims Women Get What JD Vance Meant About “Childless Cat Ladies,” Aren’t Offended by It
Meanwhile, newly unearthed footage shows Vance declaring that people who don’t have children are more “sociopathic,” “psychotic,” and “deranged.”
By Bess Levin
Review
Why Was Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway’s New Movie Buried?
Mothers’ Instinct is a perfectly solid domestic thriller with two Oscar-winning movie stars that barely got a North American release.
By Richard Lawson
SUCCESSION DRAMA
Rupert Murdoch’s Family Battle Proves He’s Losing Control
The media mogul is scrambling to protect Fox News from three of his politically moderate heirs. It’s a sign of Rupert’s waning influence. “Murdoch is no longer the pope,” one political vet says.
By Clive Irving
crime
Taylor Swift “Completely In Shock” After 3 Children Stabbed to Death At Swift-Themed Dance Class
“These were just little kids at a dance class," she wrote. U.K. royals Prince William and Kate Middleton have also shared their sympathies.
By Kase Wickman
The Dude Abides
The Dude Is Voting for Kamala Harris
Jeff Bridges, star of The Big Lebowski, hopped on the “White Dudes for Harris" fundraiser call and pledged his support for the Democratic Nominee: "I’m white, I’m a dude, and I’m for Harris.”
By Chris Murphy
Little Gold Men
For Lessons in Chemistry, Brie Larson Learned How to Experiment
She couldn’t quite crack brilliant scientist Elizabeth Zott for the Emmy-nominated show until she had her own epiphany.
By Rebecca Ford