Plus: The Unsolved Mystery of Everest's First Summit
View in your browser | Update your preferences
A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks
May 29, 2020
Clyburn, who helped hand Biden his presumptive nomination, talks about Biden's "you ain't black" and V.P. possibilities, and why this moment is defined by "raw politics and meanness."
The masterminds of The Mandalorian, Succession, Better Call Saul, Euphoria, and more tell all.
As COVID was beginning to lay siege to the country, who else to turn to but the resilient AIDS activist and writer who raged so hard against the plague that preceded it? One reporter recalls his last interview with a longtime subject.
Bizarre recordings. Lights in the sky. Missing people. It all really happened—and only some of the stories have explanations.
On April 20, oil prices dropped below zero for the first time in trading history, leaving industry insiders shell-shocked and scrambling. "Not only have we been consistently wrong," says one, "we have been wrong on an order of magnitude more than anyone could conceive."
On Thursday, Zara and Mike Tindall announced a partnership with a tech company for a health passport app, and it could be lucrative for the queen's relatives.
Seventy-five years after the disappearance of famed British climber George Mallory and his protégé, Sandy Irvine, five young Americans scaled the long-forbidden, corpse-strewn North Face of Mount Everest in search of answers to an enduring mystery: was Mallory the first man to reach the top? On the 67th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's legendary summit, revisit Bryan Burrough's story of the 1999 search: the clues they followed, the breathtaking realization of what they'd found, and the new evidence of how an impetuous explorer may have met his icy death.
No comments:
Post a Comment