It’s educational. If you want to know what is going on with the drug war, you’ve got to read the Sam Quinones books. Start with “Dreamland,” which delineates the beginning and growth of the opioid epidemic, from rural Kentucky to south of the border, and his new one, “The Least of Us,” which is all […]

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He knocked us out. It was his Prince at the Super Bowl moment. I can’t watch this stuff in real time, I’m not even sure if I care anymore. You’ve got white girls and Tom Hanks blandly testifying as to the greatness of Carole King, who is truly the G.O.A.T., and then Dr. Dre comes […]

They’d do boffo at the b.o., but the only people who were interested in a new ABBA album turned out to be in the media. The media thrives on hype. And it prefers entertainers who already have mindshare. It’s a comeback story, there’s an arc, the reunion, the cutting of the album, the cataloging of […]