Look, I’m a New Yorker reader, and generally enjoy film critic Anthony Lane’s clever turns of phrases, but this new Scarlett Johansson profile. Yeesh.
Katy Waldman at Slate deftly culled some of the most cringeworthy phrases from the profile:
A school district in Louisiana gets popped for pushing Christianity and discriminating against a Buddhist student — but it sure doesn’t seem sorry about it. (You can still see the school board’s “beliefs” posted on its old website, where No. 1 is “God exists.”)
Ed Kilgore points out that it’s not just tea partiers that are sick of compromise. Thinkers on the left are too.
Politico’s Mike Allen swears he wasn’t taking a shot at FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver in this morning’s Playbook newsletter.
Sociologist and author of What Unions No Longer Do Jake Rosenfeld takes a look at the failed attempt to unionize a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee and takes away some lessons from the attempt.
This story has it all: a politician, a Ponzi schemer and loads of cash for the politician’s alleged mistress. And of course, it’s happening in Florida.
A couple days ago, CNN anchor Don Lemon wondered aloud whether “the supernatural power of God” made the missing Malaysian airplane disappear. Last night, he stepped up his game by raising all of the internet’s crazy theories about the disappearance.
Remember when the GOP issued that big “autopsy” report on the 2012 elections a year ago promising to do better with LGBT people, Hispanics, and women voters? Yeah, they don’t either.
Breaking reports say a news helicopter has crashed in Seattle near the Space Needle.
Chris Christie’s former campaign strategist doesn’t seem to have been hurt much by BridgeGate. He just landed a plum new job at a top GOP firm.