Ben Friedman

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It’s fitting that Paul Thomas Anderson’s 10th film, One Battle After Another, serves, if not as an endpoint, then as an evolution of his impressive decades of work. That his vision delivers is hardly surprising. What is remarkable is the extent to which it exceeds even the high expectations that accompany his work, reminding us that great cinema is willed into existence at the intersection of vision, scale, and a contemporary urgency that allows Anderson to reexamine his ongoing thesis on 21st-century America -- its power, ambition, and enduring folly.

The same MAGA audience that tuned out of late-night TV a decade ago did not do so for South Park. The creators are making the most of it by airing out their grievances with President Trump, in a form of American political satire akin to Charlie Chaplin’s 'The Great Dictator,' which saw the most famous comedian of the time indicting Nazism a year before America joined the war efforts.

To promote AI accountability and peer-monitoring, AI firms should be held collectively liable for catastrophic damages.

Directed by Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent explores life under the watchful eyes of dictatorship. The film follows Armando Serranado (Wagner Moura), a former professor forced to flee his home because of his political ideology, who attempts to build a temporary life in Recife.

Hollywood has never been a stranger to corporate upheaval. Studios have merged, collapsed, and reemerged under new ownership since their inception. But the current wave of consolidation carries a particular bitterness. Executives grow richer, the films themselves become more homogenized, and the thousands of workers who actually make the industry run are left jobless, with fewer movies being made. If the consolation prize is that a new Harry Potter television series finds a home on Paramount+, that may qualify as a victory for a shareholder, but we are all the worse off for it.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Peter Moynihan scored the go-ahead goal with 1:34 remaining as the No. 9 Yale men's lacrosse team held off Brown, 14-13, on Saturday afternoon at Stevenson-Pincince Field to close the regular season with its sixth straight victory, and clinched a berth in the Ivy League Tournament for the 15 th consecutive year.

Ra'anana in central Israel is my home today. It wasn't always. I hail from the Strand, a beautiful False Bay town that is part of the area described as the “Fairest Cape”, bracketed by the majestic Hottentots-Holland mountains, Somerset West, and the turquoise blue of the Atlantic Ocean. Today, this town is making news and it involves my family. Of this I am proud, proud of the past and proud of how we are forging a favourable future.

One week ago, a slate of democratic socialists swept three competitive Democratic House primaries in New York. In districts this blue, the primary is the election.

Ben Friedman shares about how a friend’s gathering developed into a tradition. I first started convening “steak night” in 2010, when I lived in Washington, DC. Myself and a group of recent college graduates got together monthly for a divey pub’s steak special. We had our first paying jobs and spent the discretionary income we had on this ritual. We