Jacob Heilbrunn on Trump, Orban and the GOP’s deep obsession with foreign demagogues

You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. There’s no leader whose political shadow dwarfs his actual geopolitical form as much as that of Viktor Orban. The illiberal … Read more

Bill Maher Says Music’s Obsession With Money Is Poisoning Young People

Play video content Bill Maher has not changed his tune about the problems with young people … he says one of the root problems is the musical messages pumped into their brains. The ‘Real Time’ host made his case that the music industry has been singularly obsessed with the almighty dollar and the things it … Read more

Lily Gladstone Dishes on Her ‘Titanic’ Obsession and Texting With Leonardo DiCaprio (Exclusive)

Lily Gladstone is enjoying a full-circle moment. The 37-year-old actress plays the wife of Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in the critically-acclaimed film, Killers of the Flower Moon.  Gladstone attended the 35th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala, hosted by Mary Hart, on Thursday to kick off awards season, where she spoke about her pre-teen … Read more

Jennifer Aniston spills out one Courteney Cox’s obsession

Jennifer Aniston spills out one Courteney Cox’s obsession Jennifer Aniston knows a lot about Courteney Cox as they gelled well on the Friends set for years. One of which is the latter is a “neat freak.” During a throwback interview with Marie Claire, the Emmy winner shared her pal’s obsession with cleaning and passion for … Read more

Behind the general public’s enduring obsession with the Titanic wreck

Touch upon this storyComment Greater than two miles beneath the ocean, off the distant coast of Newfoundland, sits the skeleton of a ship that has captured the general public’s creativeness for greater than a century — rusting, decaying, however nonetheless emitting a siren name that pulls historians, explorers and common folks alike to review its … Read more