CNN will hold a town hall event with Donald J. Trump this evening. On the face of it, hosting a presidential candidate to answer questions from voters is an unremarkable cable-network exercise, though in this case it's the day after the candidate in question was found liable by a civil jury for sexual abuse. Even before that verdict, critics were pounding CNN on the basis that in a live format, it will be highly difficult to get viewers the truth alongside whatever Trump is serving up. Moderator Kaitlan Collins has a massive task wading through the river of drivel, but the root question we ought to be asking here is why we, the press and public, have decided to treat Donald Trump as a legitimate presidential candidate. |
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It might not save your inheritance, but it's better than no gift at all. |
| The FBI has filed charges against the New York congressman. |
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The glass matters. Never did I feel more strongly about this than when I realized how much I hated all my old highball options. The first batch I owned, years ago, was too tall and narrow, making mixing up a balanced cocktail that would actually stay balanced impossible. The top was all club soda, the bottom all booze. (Equally hard: Drinking out of the glass sans straw.) The second, which I received for my wedding, was far too big, in both circumference and volume. Fill those with liquor and I'd be on the floor; attempt a more moderate approach and your drink looks ludicrously undersized. (They have since found a second life as water glasses.) But I've finally arrived at my just-right option, the Barwell Cut Crystal highball glass set from Soho Home. Perfectly sized, remarkably attractive, and delightfully weighty, these glasses hit all the right marks. There's no looking back for my home bar. |
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Get your speakers ready, people. |
| Sleeping should be comfortable, and easy. |
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There are few things more American than apple pie—and one of them is a fear of sex. Watch any cultural weathervane spin and it inevitably points to some sort of panic regarding the carnal, the kinky, the fun. Even in ostensibly progressive corners of the country, the bizarre cry of "no kink at Pride" now recurs like allergy season. Is this some kind of pendulum effect? After sex has been on our screens and pages for so long, this country's puritanical roots seem to have returned with a vengeance. The writer Zachary Zane believes that they never left. In his new book Boyslut: A Memoir and A Manifesto, Zane argues that, in much of American culture, "sex-negativity is pervasive, insidious, and touches us all—and not in a fun, kinky way." As a sex and relationships advice columnist for Men's Health and Cosmopolitan, Zane has seen how our society's moralistic attitudes about our bodies and our sexual and gender expressions leave many of us limited and wanting for release. And so Zane wrote this book, "a confessional call-to-arms," he tells Esquire, as both a memoir—a window into his own sexual life and experiences as a polyamorous bisexual man in New York City—and a manifesto—a window into what is possible through a healthy relationship with sex and with sexual partners: intimacy and play, connection and community. |
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