These Photos Should Send the Country Aflame

The government is holding thousands of immigrants in 'ticking time-bombs' at the border—according to reports from Trump's own government. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       Once Upon a Time, These Photos Would Have Sent the Whole Country Aflame   Time was when information as damning as that released on Tuesday by the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security—whether an official government report, or testimony by a whistleblower, or by the dogged work of investigative journalists—would set the country aflame. It's what Upton Sinclair did with meat-packing and Ida Tarbell did with Standard Oil. It was what happened when Life published the photos of one week's worth of American dead in Vietnam, and when the first photos of the slaughter at My Lai appeared. You could see through the country as though it were one of those transparent figures from high-school biology. You could stare into its viscera and find it unrecognizable as the body of the country in which you thought you'd been living. The IG's report, complete with pictures, is unsparing in its conclusion and brutal in its truth. Read More           Jack Reynor Wanted to Change Our Expectations of Horror Movies. So He Went Fully Nude.   Raised in Ireland, the 27-year-old actor has spent a majority of his life building a cinematic knowledge that allows him to constantly draw parallels and connections between any film, any era, or any genre. His latest film, Midsommar, is absolutely one of those movies that deserves such rigorous analysis. The movie, director Ari Aster's bright and kaleidoscopic follow-up to Hereditary, arrives in the midst of a new golden era of horror. Esquire's Pete Forester sits down with the actor and director to discuss why the genre is having such an artistic boom, the power of storytelling, and Reynor's climactic—and bold—full frontal nude scene. Read More             This Is What Sex Ed Looks Like Across the Country   Only half of U.S. states mandate sex education. Here's what they're teaching, what they're leaving out, and to what effect. Read More           You'll Want to Buy Rowing Blazers' Retro-Inspired Baseball Hat in Three Colors   Baseball hats are one of the hallmarks of summer, along with Bruce Springsteen playlists and finding sand everywhere inside of your house. Rowing Blazers knows that. If you're unfamiliar, Rowing Blazers is a brand—nay, the brand—reimagining preppy clothes, baseball caps included. They come in cool colors and fun fabrics, and they have little motifs on them that speak to personal style in a time when your clothes might err on the more minimal side. Here's why you should get one (or three). Read More           This Video of Trump's Tanks Rolling By the Washington Baseball Stadium Is Chilling   A video shot by a fan leaving a Major League Baseball game shows the tanks the president ordered for his Fourth-of-July-celebration-slash-military-parade, rolling through our nation's capital as a college kid leaves a Washington Nationals game. America's Pastime meets its ugly moral underbelly, the relentless will to power and the rapacious hunger to expand the empire. Our president has channeled this national impulse to meet his very personal needs, inserting American militarism—and himself—into a celebration of the country's founding and the values it claimed but has never lived up to. American Greatness is now fully synonymous with American Strength, thanks to America's Strongman. Read More           Any 4th of July Cocktail That's Not Just Watermelon + Booze Is Too Damn Much   This summer is a hot one. It's steamy and sticky, and it's only July 3. And so, with sluggishness in your veins and weariness in your brain, don't kill yourself making cool cocktails for your guests. Instead, buy a watermelon. It's the easiest cocktail mixer you could hope for, outside of buying four liters of club soda. It's festive and flavorful, and just the right amount of impressive to make your guests think you actually tried for them, which you didn't (at all!). 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