Watching Britney Spears, as a Girl and a Woman
For 25 years, American culture has used her body to determine a woman’s worth. In “The Woman in Me,” she asks us to take a second look.
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The two Irish singers interacted like siblings, speaking of each other warmly, but needling each other, too.
View ArticleThe Year in ‘Sensitive Content’
In 2023, Instagram served me images of dead and dying children, heightening social media’s contradictions to a horrific new level.
View Article‘Bluey’ and ‘Chip Chilla’ Offer a Fantasy of a Fun TV Dad
In the children’s series “Bluey” and its conservative knockoff, “Chip Chilla,” boundlessly attentive fathers step in to assuage parental anxieties.
View ArticleThe Fading Online Celebrity of George Santos
Inside the halls of power, his performance worked for a time. Outside, he’s a flop.
View ArticleHow A.I. Is Remodeling the Fantasy Home
Amid an intractable real estate crisis, fake luxury houses offer a delusion of one’s own.
View ArticleCómo la inteligencia artificial está remodelando la casa de tus sueños
En medio de una crisis inmobiliaria inmanejable, las casas de lujo simuladas son una prueba de nuestro propio delirio.
View ArticleThe Comedy, and the Horror, of the Infertility Plot
Onscreen, assisted reproductive technology is a double-edged device, representing women’s empowerment, or their exploitation.
View Article‘Who TF Did I Marry?!?’ Rings in TikTok’s Midlife Crisis Era
Reesa Teesa’s 50-part drama about her marriage — one she says was built on lies about mortgages, car payments and a bad knee — is made for TikTok’s middle-aged users.
View ArticleStepping Out From Hillary Clinton’s Onscreen Shadow
For the past two decades, female presidential candidates on TV have been made in her image. Finally, that’s beginning to change.
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