Love and Mr. Lincoln

Posted on February 14, 2023
Image: A cousin of Ann Rutledge declared that this young lady looked very much like Lincoln’s first sweetheart; THR illustration/Shutterstock/Library of Congress.

What if Ann Rutledge had lived, and she and Lincoln had married?

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All Ben’s Boys

Posted on February 10, 2023
Image: From left: Katharine Graham, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, Howard Simons, and Ben Bradlee discuss Watergate, 1973; Mark Godfrey/TopFoto.

An institution entering the last of its salad days while still running on the fumes of its preening self-importance.

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Consumer Confusion

Posted on February 21, 2023
Image: THR illustration; Shutterstock.

Does the Meta-Birkin seriously compromise consumers’ ability to separate the NFT from the real Hermès bag? 

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