Clicking into amazon-dot-com during Prime Day induces a sort of online shopping mania. Everything you have ever clicked on, it turns out, is discounted. To help you parse through it all and figure out what’s worth caring about, we called on our editors. Consider this a roadmap to shopping Amazon Prime Day, from your friends with good taste. —Luke Guillory, commerce editor
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If you spend any time online, you know that in the past few years, Amazon Prime Day has become as big a shopping phenomenon as Black Friday. It used to be that Prime Day was the one day a year aside from Black Friday you could score unbelievable discounts on pretty much anything—until they added Prime Big Deal Days and extended Prime Day to be, well, not just one day but multiple days in succession.
Nevertheless, Prime Day is still a big deal to us shopping editors, and with the big discount days starting today, we’re seeing some pretty incredible markdowns on the stuff we’re actually looking to buy, from home to tech and menswear. We’re also keeping our eyes on a few things we’re hoping will go on sale at some point, so keep checking back here as we update the sales. Check out what Esquire editors are shopping this year below.
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Sentences I Never Thought I’d Write: Part the Infinity:
Holy hell, did this country ever need the World Cup.
Granted, this is a hemispheric tournament, but Canada and Mexico didn’t need these outpourings of national joy as much as did this troubled republic. Not even close. Watching the ruination (literally) of the national capital, from the lawn of the White House to Lake Dementia on the National Mall, and all allegedly to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, would have constituted an utterly soul-deadening summer.
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So what is America? Do you know? Do any of us know anymore? We’re hermetically sealed in our information bubbles, sorted by our social-media feeds, feverishly working alone in our home offices, picking up essentials with a swipe and a tap rather than a trip to the store. You’ve heard a million times that we’re polarized, but this is something else: We’re atomized. Absent from one another. Us, here in this place that puts a lot of stock in a very important idea about collectivism: “Out of many, one.” (Perhaps you know the Latin: E pluribus unum.)
If you haven’t heard, America’s got kind of a big birthday coming up. The lady turns 250 this year, and that means it’s high time to consider how she’s doing. To consider what she is. To consider who we are. If you want to know what America is, well—listen to Americans. Esquire decided to get as close as a magazine can. On a single Friday in April, we carried pen and camera from sea to shining sea, visiting with Americans as far apart as a Hollywood scion and the diner waitress in the small town in Maine where the sun first hits the country.
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