Matthew Yglesias's Blog, page 113

Help! My Son’s Asian Wife Won’t Let Him Talk to Me.

We don't get along.

Netflix Killed Video Stores. Now They Want to Own Your Nostalgia for Them.

Blockbuster’s self-awareness doesn’t make it any less grating.

I Helped Pioneer Weird Twitter. I Have a Plan for Elon Musk.

An ode to the days when everything happened so much.

The Purple State Where the Midterms Could Bring Permanent Republican Rule

Forget Congress. This kind of thing is why Tuesday’s elections really matter.

Homecoming

Rana Foroohar joins Slate Money to talk about the end of globalization.

How Are the Midterms Affecting Social Media?

Some politicians really understand how to be online, but most don't.

The Most Interesting Character in the Revealing New Selena Gomez Documentary Isn’t Selena

Apple TV’s My Mind & Me turns the camera around on the audience.

Private Equity Firms Tried to Shoplift a Supermarket Chain Before Selling It. A Judge Just Stopped Them.

The Albertsons/Kroger merger tells you a lot about our cash-extractive economy.

The Only Way to Navigate the Election Storm Ahead

The descent into a world in which people who are fundamentally unethical and unserious hold too many levers of power is not normal and it’s not funny.

How Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front Deviates From the Book—and WWI History

The movie surpasses previous adaptations of Erich Maria Remarque’s story but gives it a very different ending.