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Future Tense Newsletter: An A.I. Cold War?

Anthony Nguyen — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 17:49:37 GMT

Greetings, Future Tensers,

Paul Manafort Sentenced to 90 Months in Federal Prison, Immediately Indicted on 16 More Counts in New York

Jeremy Stahl — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 17:33:01 GMT

Paul Manafort has been sentenced to a total of seven and a half years in federal prison after receiving a second punishment on Wednesday as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.

The Culture Gabfest “Come as You Were” Edition

Dana Stevens — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:59:47 GMT

Listen to Culture Gabfest No. 546 with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner with the audio player below.

My Daughter, the Maxes, and Me

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:51:00 GMT

Our daughter was only a few days old when my husband worried out loud about what we’d do when someday boys came calling. I told him that in addition to sounding like a cliché, he had it all wrong. The real nightmare is what happens when boys don’t call.

The Reddit War

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:39:36 GMT

On April 14, Reddit user nadiahamilton logged onto the Syrian Civil War subreddit to submit the following post:

Seth Meyers Asks Trump About Ted Bundy in Late Night White House Press Conference

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:05:15 GMT

Press conferences with Donald Trump are unpleasant. They’re digressive, combative, and, as Late Night host Seth Meyers points out, often leave us with more questions than answers. To remedy this, Meyers was kind enough to host yet another Late Night White House press conference, in which his team made excellent use of the vast array of bonkers Trump sound bites.

Flyers With Swastikas Found at California High School That Went Viral for Swastika Beer Pong Photo

Molly Olmstead — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 14:43:38 GMT

A California high school that had been grappling with a scandal in which a photo of students giving a Nazi salute circulated on social media is investigating another anti-Semitic incident on campus.

The Authoritarian Vote

Yascha Mounk — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 13:00:02 GMT

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Netflix’s New Mini-Seasons Steal an Old Trick From Broadcast TV

Inkoo Kang — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:30:02 GMT

When Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Netflix’s dramatic interpretation of Archie Comics’ teen witch, arrived just in time for Halloween last year, it quickly became an expected hit. Set in the same midcentury-but-now mashup era as Riverdale, the coming-of-age series, starring Kiernan Shipka as the title character, followed its initial 10 episodes with a Christmas special and is slated to return with another nine installments on April 5, less than six months after the series’ debut. It feels like not a moment too soon: I eagerly anticipate more of Sabrina’s Buffy-lite escapades, and as a TV binger, I’m tired of forgetting what happened in the previous season on some of my favorite shows in the 364 days between releases. Sabrina’s twice-a-year advents, like Nailed It’s and Queer Eye’s before it, suggest Netflix is rediscovering the wisdom of broadcast TV’s periodic dole outs.

How to Protect Fabric Furniture From Stains and Dirt

Strategist Editors — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:00:06 GMT

The soft, pink velvet couch of my dreams recently materialized in my life: an on-trend, secondhand West Elm lounger that is miraculously stain- and dirt-free. I love it like my own child and paid a small fortune to buy it, too, but given my anxiety and its “pristine-ness,” it’s already giving me issues. The main one being that I haven’t been doing much sitting on it. I refuse to let it be besmirched by my subway clothes, for starters — if you were a regular on the A train, you would, too. And the idea of having guests over who might want to sip and snack on it? Unthinkable.