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Season 2 of You finishes on a cliffhanger and was left on when Love, the character that Joe was obsessing over but was ultimately going to kill, decides not to do so because she reveals in a last second confession ...

COVID-19 has killed around 800,000 Americans. Joe Biden won the 2020 election by a margin of less than 45,000 votes in three states. There’s a morbid, tragic, and uncomfortable question that may linger in the back of your mind when ...

Michael and Louis discuss Eternals, the polarizing new Marvel film from Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao.

Unless he’s renominated by President Biden, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s term will expire in February of 2022. Historically speaking, every modern chair of the Federal Reserve has been renominated by the successive president of a different party (often several ...

Earlier this year, Pitchfork asked its readers to vote on the 200 best albums of the past 25 years as a way to celebrate the website’s 25th anniversary. It was a deceptively loaded requisite: the “Most Trusted Voice in Music” ...

Michael, Lars, and Louis discuss two of the most talk about two of the fall’s biggest hits: Dune and Squid Game.

Politics Express kicks off its new recurring segment called “…In Our Lifetime?” — discussions on the big political and global questions of the 21st century. To start what will be a recurring segment on the show, host Lars Emerson dedicates ...

It’s May of 2024 and former Vice President Mike Pence appears to be the likely Republican nominee, despite Donald Trump’s victory in the Iowa caucuses only a few months earlier.  He comes out just ahead of the former president as ...

Lars and Mike finish up their ranking of every postwar president. Find out who is overrated and underrated as they debate their highest-ranked presidents and announce the best one since World War II.

Given the current state of the world, it may feel odd to say that someone has had a “good” 2021, but if anyone has, surely it’s Michelle Zauner. The singer/songwriter/guitarist/mastermind behind Japanese Breakfast scored her first “win” in April with ...

*CHUNG CHUNG* Imagine it’s the fall of 1990 and you’re hearing this sound coming out of your television for the first time. What are you thinking? Does it wash over you as some sort of innovative television program or does ...

Lars and Mike rank every postwar president… starting at the bottom! Find out why we only compare postwar presidents, who the most mediocre presidents are, and the stunning choice for the worst president since World War II.

Michael and Louis talk about The Many Saints of Newark before Lars joins them to talk about another top 10 music list.

On the Monday after the Emmys, I decided to catch up on everything I missed (by everything missed I mean the entire award ceremony). When I scroll through my timeline I see a number of encouraging moments: Jason Sudekis winning ...

Michael, Lars, and Louis discuss Shang-Chi, the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and HBO’s Hacks.

In the Watching Mates season finale, Lars and Michael unpack the nascent Biden administration through the films Free Guy and Minari.

“So, how about that Cabinet, huh?” is how I imagine I’ll attempt small talk in my future retirement home. The president’s Cabinet consists of the 15 department heads, the vice president, and whichever other agency heads or other designees the ...

In this week’s addition of what I’ve been listening to, we’ve got the possible swan song of a country music legend, a record that manages to be pretty and gnarly all at the same time, and an old college favorite. ...

The Postrider‘s State & Science Editor Lars Emerson is joined by Editor-in-Chief Michael Lovito to discuss Gavin Newsom’s victory in the California recall election and President Biden’s declining approval rating. In their main segment, they explore the competitive 2022 Senate ...

This is the sixth and final piece in our series of six features on the Midwestern Democratic decline where we explored consequential parts of the Midwest and the prevailing headwinds faced by the Democratic Party in the region. We’ll use ...

Michael, Louis, and Lars discuss a bunch of new movie trailers, John Mulaney’s foibles in the public eye and the Rolling Stone’s updated list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

The brief and tumultuous Trump administration proves to have one of the most direct impacts on American cinema, as Lars and Michael explore through the films Hell or High Water and BlacKkKlansman.