Blog Verité

February’s biggest news on the TV front—besides Rihanna headlining some little sporting event whose name escapes me—was the triumphant return of Starz’s cult-classic comedy Party Down. The rest of the month was fairly quiet. We got some OK-but-not-great midseason network

Hundreds of female pupils in Iran have been subjected to poisoning attacks in classrooms in what is believed to be an attempt to stop them attending school.

Biden admin quietly admits White House’s 9,000 unused oil permits talking point is wrong  Fox News

White House scales back plans to regulate U.S. investments in China  POLITICO

I am frequently asked, as creative director of TIME, to choose my favorite cover in the magazine’s history—a history that now covers a full century. It’s a question I typically avoid, given that any one answer leaves too many covers

White House Says It’s Confident in Legal Authority Behind Student Loan Forgiveness Plan  The Wall Street Journal

When TIME set out to tackle the debate over children’s TV in late 1970, a year after Sesame Street premiered, correspondent Mary Cronin was sent to interview one of the show’s puppeteers—and ended up posing her questions directly to Oscar the

Something happened at Asbury University. Many Christians called the weeks-long worship service at the small Wilmore, Ky. school, which attracted tens of thousands and disrupted campus life, a revival. Fervent worship and prayer that began during a Feb. 8, 2023

Republican presidential hopefuls won’t say how they differ from Trump  NBC News

He’s over 80, but the Austrian climber Peter Habeler — one half of the duo that was first to scale Everest without supplemental oxygen — is still fantastically fit and scaling mountain peaks, which he calls his “fountain of youth”.