Thomson Medical announces 10.5 ha Johor Bay development
Healthcare provider Thomson Medical Group on Monday (Aug 25) announced a Johor Bay “mega project” in Malaysia, with a projected gross development value (GDV) of more than RM18 billion…
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Transcript: Gavin Newsom’s Harsh Trump Takedown Nails It: “Wake Up!”
Sargent: And by the way, a lot of people might object to what we’re saying here by pointing out that, Well, don’t Democrats have to focus on what’s popular? What about moderate Democrats…
Mickey Drexler on the future of retail, AI’s limits, and lessons from Steve Jobs
Mickey Drexler redefined retail by radically remaking Gap and J.Crew, and working alongside Steve Jobs to guide the creation of the Apple Store. Now Drexler assesses some of the biggest…
Slashing the Intelligence Office Workforce Is Just a Start
Creating the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was a mistake. Short of its being erased, it needs to be streamlined and reformed. Source link
Japanese Internment: The Other 80th Anniversary to Remember
The moral and constitutional failure was not Roosevelt’s alone. Source link
Blessing in a Box
Safe-haven baby boxes offer hope to desperate mothers. Source link
Should We Have Allied with Hitler?
‘Just asking questions’ makes its dumbest query yet. Source link
What Jamieson Greer Gets Wrong About Trump’s New Trade System
The U.S. trade representative’s New York Times article defending Trump’s trade policy makes several grievous errors. Source link
NFL Names Abercrombie & Fitch Official Fashion Partner
Abercrombie & Fitch continues to deepen its relationship with the National Football League. The league has signed a multiyear deal that makes the apparel retailer its Official NFL Fashion…
Dulac Distribution Nabs French Rights to Toronto Title ‘The Currents’ From Luxbox Films (EXCLUSIVE)
Dulac Distribution has pounced on the French rights to “The Currents” (“Las Corrientes”) from Luxbox Films in advance of the drama’s world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF).…
Singapore shares close higher on Monday as inflation eases; STI up 0.1%
Stocks on the local bourse closed higher on Monday (Aug 25) after the Republic reported that core inflation eased to 0.5 per cent in July, while headline inflation slowed to 0.6 per cent.…
Why your best ideas come when you stop trying so hard
In a world obsessed with productivity hacks and optimization strategies, I propose we try something radical: What if the secret to peak performance isn’t doing more, but doing differently?…
Cindy Sherman’s and Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley
For a hundred years of New Yorker history (except once, in 2000, for our seventy-fifth anniversary), our covers have featured drawings, not photographs. For the September 1 & 8, 2025,…
Fashion models reckon with AI models and digital clones after controversial ad appears in Vogue
Fashion model Hannah James faced a dilemma as she weighed whether to digitally clone herself. On one hand, the 25-year-old worries digital replicas of models could render her job obsolete.…
What The New Yorker Was Watching in 1925
Film criticism at The New Yorker started with a bang: the first movie reviewed in the first issue, dated February 21, 1925, was the German director F. W. Murnau’s “The Last Laugh,” a…
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Latest Epiphanies
“Elizabeth Gilbert has a new memoir out.” The mere sentence radiates gentle inspiration—watercolors, billowy pants with elephants printed on them, sparkly truthtelling in a big straw hat.…
The Celebrity Picture Book Boom
There are no guilty pleasures in childhood. It is only as an adult that I feel a certain sheepishness when recalling one of my favorite picture books, “Ann Likes Red,” by Dorothy Z.…
Trump’s Next “Hellhole”: Chicago. Democrats, Get Ready for a Fight.
It’s been sickening to watch Trump tell lie after lie about the city he lives in most of the time but clearly knows nothing about. Yes, Washington went a week without a homicide since…
How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge
When I was growing up, a critic was a jerk, a crank, a spoilsport. I figured that was the whole idea. My favorite characters on “The Muppet Show” were Statler and Waldorf, the two geezers…
Constantine Cavafy, Poetry’s Inadvertent Influencer
The apparition of my body in its youth, since nine o’clock when I first turned up the lamp, has come and found me and reminded me of shuttered perfumed rooms and of pleasure spent—what…
Missouri’s Bizarre Second Amendment Law Is Going to the Supreme Court
The case centers on the Second Amendment Preservation Act, or SAPA. Missouri lawmakers first passed it in 2021 in response to what its proponents described as federal overreach.…
John Leguizamo Says He Felt ‘Humiliated’ Starring as Latino Gunman in ‘Regarding Henry’ and Likens 1990s Hollywood to Jim Crow Era
John Leguizamo opened up about some early career setbacks in Hollywood during a recent appearance on the podcast Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade. Reminiscing about Mike…
Shanghai stock benchmark hits new decade high, Hong Kong nears 4-year peak
China and Hong Kong stocks jumped on Monday (Aug 25), led by the rare earth and property sectors, extending the recent bull run as abundant liquidity continued to fuel gains. At market…
Francis Ford Coppola Set to Honor Warner Herzog During Venice Film Festival Opening Ceremony
Francis Ford Coppola has been recruited by the Venice Film Festival to deliver the so-called “Laudatio” speech honoring Werner Herzog during the event’s opening ceremony. As previously…