Presenting Esquire's Best Bars in America, 2019

Twenty-seven great places to grab a mighty beverage. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       These Are the Best Bars in America, 2019   Bars in America are changing, and we believe that's a good thing. Macho posturing and mixologist preening are on the way out. Wine bars are on the rise, and so are alcohol-free options. The watering holes that we honor here, on our annual list, are the ones that Esquire's Jeff Gordinier and Kevin Sintumuang think do the best job of deepening a sense of community and making everyone feel at home ... while also pouring exactly what you need. Read More           Stranger Things Star David Harbour Has Had His Own Trip to the Upside Down and Back   For the past few years, David Harbour has been trying to keep the law—and a hold on reality—in the streets of Hawkins, Indiana. As the Netflix show Stranger Things begins its third season, Esquire's Maximillian Potter talks to the actor about his own journey. Read More             Meet the One-Size-Fits-All Monthly Box   Bespoke Post packs each Box of Awesome with quality goods at a great price, month after month. Read More           75 Years Ago Today, Courage and Horror Washed Over Normandy's Beaches   Esquire's Charles P. Pierce writes about the presence World War II was in his life. He says: "It lived in the stories our fathers told us, and it lived in the awe we felt when we started studying history and found out that the old fud in the golf shoes had held off the panzers in Belgium, or dodged kamikazes off Okinawa, or walked out of a landing craft into blood and death, relentless fire and merciless iron. Now, we're rounding into our 60s, all of us, the little cosmic rewards that came along for what these people had seen on Guadalcanal, in the Ardennes, or in Normandy, and we're beginning to pass from the scene, too. The people who told what stories they could tell are gone, and now the people to whom they told the stories are going." Read More           A New Report on Trump's Foreign Business Holdings Points to a Gobsmacking Level of Corruption   Corruption, it increasingly appears, is inseparable from authoritarianism. It's not just that people who run or are willing to join would-be autocratic regimes lack any kind of ethical principle. It's that the money greases the wheels of the machine. That increasingly appears to be the model the United States is pursuing, as Donald Trump, American president, oversees The Great American Heist. A stunning new report from Anna Massoglia and Karl-Evers Hillstrom at OpenSecrets, published Tuesday night, illustrates just how sprawling the violations could be. Read More           Every Episode of Black Mirror, Ranked   As its title suggests, Black Mirror has become the anthology series that forces us to examine ourselves, and the increasingly technological world in which we inhabit, through the screen we have pointed at ourselves at all times. Since it premiered eight years ago, and moved from Channel 4 in the U.K. to Netflix, it has become our generation's version of The Twilight Zone, but one might argue with far more at stake. But like every anthology series, even the Emmy-winning Black Mirror can be hit or miss. So, with Season Five now on Netflix, we ranked all 23 episodes from worst to best. Read More         Read More on Esquire.com       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2019 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019