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☆ American Battleground: Cat people are still haunting Trump’s campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-31 | by ( Tom Foreman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

“Kamalaaaaaaaa!”Oprah Winfrey is belting it out in her sweet home of Chicago, welcoming the joyous, raucous, unmerciful dismantling of former President Donald Trump that is defining this Democratic National Convention. A second, very different presidential debateIn Philadelphia, a birthplace of American democracy, Harris is charging Trump before the first question. Trump’s debate prep team predicted and feared this strategy so much they brought in Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz to play tormentor in practice rounds with their candidate. “I’m actually going to do something very unusual,” she says, “and I’m going to invite you to attend one of Donald Trump’s rallies, because it’s really interesting to watch. CNN’s Phil Mattingly, who covered Harris in the Senate, spoke with a senior Trump campaign adviser just ahead of the debate.

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☆ Battle of the billionaires: Harris deploys Mark Cuban as Elon Musk stumps for Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-17 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Alex-Seitz-Wald-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Alex Seitz-Wald | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

The Grinch is the one that's going to be putting these small business out of business." Unlike Musk, who has donated nearly $75 million and counting to Trump-aligned groups, Cuban is not a political donor. Ben Wikler, Wisconsin's Democratic Party Chair, praised Cuban's "talents" and said he has credibility to reach voters on business and economic issues. But I trust her.”None of this, however, is unfamiliar territory for Cuban, who played a similar role in 2016 for Clinton’s ultimately unsuccessful campaign against Trump. Before that campaign, Trump and Cuban had a hot-and-cold relationship.

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They want to see her more, and we’re engaging with that and want to continue to do that” before Election Day, a Harris campaign aide said. Even if voters miss her appearances when they air, they may still catch viral moments that are replayed in their social media feeds, the campaign aide said. When Stern asked whether therapy might be an antidote to the stress she faces on the trail, she said, laughing: “This is my form of therapy right now, Howard.”“With me? "And Congress has shown no inclination to move in your direction," her interviewer, Bill Whitaker, saidStill, Harris campaign officials say they’re delighted by how she’s performed in these less scripted settings. “It’s been great,” another senior Harris campaign aide said.

Persons: WASHINGTON, Kamala Harris, “ You’ve, ” Howard Stern, “, ” Joy Behar, ”, Donald Trump, CBS’s Stephen Colbert, gamely, Colbert, Harris, “ We’ve, Stern vouched, Stern, Warren Beatty, “ I’ve, I’ve, that’s, Trump, ” Harris, Floridians, CBS’s, Theo Von, ” Von, You’ll, Howard, ” Stern, Bill Whitaker, they’re, she’s, “ It’s, Biden, “ There’s, Joe Biden, … I’m, She’s, Howard Stern Organizations: Democratic, NBC, Weather Channel, CNN, Univision, Trump, USA, Suffolk University, Fox News, Republican, NBC News Locations: U.S, California, San Francisco, Hurricane Milton, Las Vegas, Nevada, Arizona, Maricopa County , Arizona

☆ Where did all the lifeguards go?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Kelli María Korducki | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

My girlfriends, a year or two older, were most interested in catching the eye of the male lifeguards. The swim disparities also influenced the scope of a lifeguard's job. While the lack of qualified lifeguards may partly stem from this problem, getting more lifeguards on stands could turn things around. As we enter our fourth year without enough lifeguards, it's hard to imagine them retaking the podium as the cultural idol of American summer. When more cities prioritize safe water access for the masses — and pay lifeguards accordingly — the mighty lifeguard just may rise again.

Persons: Marco Polo, I'd, fawning, Wyatt Werneth, Werneth, —, Jessi Adler, Adler, hasn't, lifeguarding, Jason Russell, it's, Russell, Jeff Wiltse, Wiltse, KENA BETANCUR, Suburbanites Organizations: American Lifeguard Association, Getty, Lyndon, Johnson, SUNY Empire State, World, Association, American, of Public Health, New, Civil Rights Movement, Employers Locations: Milwaukee, America, Southern California, Michigan, Central Texas, Canada, New York City, Chicago, Denver, Baltimore, San Antonio

☆ Biden and Trump both want you to ignore the obvious
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

But that's not what it looked like on Thursday when Biden floundered in his debate performance against former President Donald Trump, political strategists told Business Insider. "It was a disaster for President Biden," Alex Zdan, GOP political strategist and former New Jersey Republican candidate for US Senate, told BI. Where the similarities endAnother Trump presidency would mean a vastly different America than if Biden won a second term. When BI reached out for comment, representatives for the Trump campaign declined to answer questions about similarities between Trump and Biden. To have a chance, Biden will need that constituency to ignore his poor debate performance and questions about his age.

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☆ What is the ‘hot rodent’ trend, and how do men feel about it?
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

It began, seemingly, with a few innocuous social media posts comparing Mike Faist, co-star of the titillating tennis throuple film “Challengers,” to a dormouse. No, he’s Stuart Little, if Stuart Little was hot. “How ‘hot rodent’ men became Hollywood’s sexiest heartthrobs: Gen Z fans are going wild for actors with unusual features including Barry Keoghan, Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Allen White,” read the headline. How do these men — heartthrobs of the moment, even — feel about being categorized as “hot rodents”? “It was clearly not meant as an insult and even though some people would take it as an insult, I mostly felt it was a way of saying that I was cute.”While by no means exhaustive, these responses suggest men feel mostly fine with the “hot rodent” trend.

Persons: Mike Faist, ”, he’s Despereaux, he’s Stuart Little, Stuart Little, Lucy Ford, Faist’s, Josh O’Connor, Barry Keoghan, Timothée Chalamet, Jeremy Allen White, Glen Powell, Kieran Culkin, —, Powell, Jimmy Fallon, “, ” stewart, dooney, “ She’s, Gustav Organizations: CNN, Daily Mail, New York Times, Guardian, London Times, NBC Locations: capybaras

☆ Robert Downey Jr.'s 'showboating' performances in 'The Sympathizer' are polarizing critics. Here's what reviews are saying about HBO's new series.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The series follows an agent referred to only as the Captain (Hoa Xuande), who's half-Vietnamese and half-French. Aligned with North Vietnam, he's embedded within the South Vietnam army. Critics have generally praised the series, particularly Xuande's performance and Park's direction (in addition to showrunning duties, he directs the first three episodes). Here's a breakdown of where some reviewers stand ahead of the series premiere on HBO Sunday evening. AdvertisementVariety's Alison Herman says that splitting Downey into parts both "deploys and diffuses" the impact of his celebrity on the series.

Persons: Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer, Hoa, Critics, —, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Chan, Don McKellar, he's, Robert Downey Jr, Xuande, Hopper Stone, Alan Sepinwall, IndieWire's Ben Travers, Tran Bui, Beth Dubber, weren't, Robert Downey's, Laura Sirikul, Sirikul, Variety's Alison Herman, Herman, Christopher Nolan's, Oppenheimer, Nick Schager, Downey, Sandra Oh, Park Chan, Nguyen's, Judy Berman, Rory Doherty, lauds, Doherty, Inverse's, Fred Nguyen Khan, Duy Nguyen, Sepinwall, IndieWire's Travers, Richard Lawson, Schager, Thanh, Fair's Lawson, Marina Fang Organizations: HBO, Viet Thanh, Service, Downey, Stone, Daily Locations: Viet, North Vietnam, Vietnam, United States, Korean

☆ Opinion: Hur hearing shows GOP will need more than age issue against Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Patrick T. Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —President Joe Biden tried to put voters’ concerns about his age to rest last week with a fiery State of the Union address. In many respects, the damage to Biden was already done by the release of Hur’s report last month. Biden has gamely sought to defuse the age issue, often joking about being aware of his own limitations and contrasting himself favorably with Trump. And the transcript provided more details that provided some added context behind the initial picture painted by Hur’s report. Biden’s age clearly remains his biggest political vulnerability and a key factor in the race.

Persons: Patrick T, Brown, Joe Biden, Robert Hur, Biden, Hur, Republicans didn’t, Hank Johnson, “, gamely, Donald Trump’s, Biden’s, Franklin D, Roosevelt, Trump Organizations: Public Policy Center, Economic Committee, CNN, GOP, Republicans, Georgia Democrat, Trump, Democrats, Democratic Locations: Washington , DC, Georgia, Mexico, Egypt, Afghanistan, America

☆ Thieves Stole a Formula 1 Driver’s Ferrari. It Turned Up 28 Years Later.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Victor Mather | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

As a driver on the glamorous, jet-setting Formula One circuit, naturally the Austrian Gerhard Berger drove some serious iron, even away from the track: a red Ferrari 512M Testarossa. So it was very likely with some dismay that he watched his car unexpectedly drive away with someone else behind the wheel. Berger jumped in the path of the car, according to reports at the time, but had to leap out of the way as it zoomed off. He then gamely gave chase in a friend’s Volkswagen Golf, which went about as well as you would have expected it to. The Ferrari was gone.

Persons: Austrian Gerhard Berger, Berger, gamely, Ferrari Organizations: Ferrari, San Marino, San Marino Grand Prix Locations: Austrian, San Marino Grand, Imola, Italy

Under cover of darkness a year ago Friday, someone breached a waist-high fence and slipped into the Central Park Zoo. The break-in happened steps from the shared headquarters of the New York City Parks Department and the Central Park Zoo, in the vicinity of at least one surveillance camera. Since the zoo suspended efforts to re-capture Flaco in February 2023, there has been no public information about the crime. In 2021, another beloved Central Park owl, Barry, was fatally struck by a truck after ingesting a lethal dose of rat poison that may have impaired her flying. He’s also lucky.”Flaco spent his initial months of freedom mostly in Central Park, which is loaded with wildlife, but has lately preferred more urban sections of Manhattan.

Persons: Flaco, hadn't, ”, Jacqueline Emery, “, Max Pulsinelli, Nicole Barrantes, Jerry Vlasak, we’re, Barry, Suzanne Shoemaker, “ He’s, He’s, ” Flaco, David Barrett, Barrett, “ It’s, “ We’re Organizations: Central, Zoo, Fifth, New York City Parks Department, Central Park Zoo, Parks Department, North American Animal Liberation Press Office, Wildlife Conservation Society, Manhattan Locations: York, Maryland, Central Park, Manhattan, North America

☆ I hope Renée Rapp never succumbs to media training
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

But her press tour for "Mean Girls" may be one of her best performances yet. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Take this clip from the "Mean Girls" junket. Advertisement"So, I love Megan Thee Stallion. On "Today," she reflected on how she felt after being cast as Regina George in "Mean Girls" on Broadway in 2019.

Persons: —, Renée Rapp, she's, Rapp hasn't, celeb, Regina George, she'd, Buddy, Megan Thee Stallion, Rapp, Meg, Tory Lanez, Megan, Megan Thee, Mark Cuban, Lindsay Lohan, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez's Organizations: Service, Business

☆ ‘Wish’ review: Disney tries to thaw out its ‘Frozen’ magic with Ariana DeBose
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —More than 70 years after Disney had a cricket sing about wishing upon a star, “Wish” picks up that theme, in an animated movie that desperately wants to thaw out some of the studio’s “Frozen” magic. Hailing from members of that movie’s creative team, “Wish” doesn’t quite reach the stars, but it does shine intermittently while introducing another plucky teenage female heroine, gamely voiced by Ariana DeBose. The movie does however celebrate the power of wishes, and in the process, decades of Disney history. By that measure, “Wish” mostly delivers – a credible addition to Disney’s long filmography, even if it’s not exactly a dream come true. “Wish” will offer early-access screenings on November 18 and open wide in US theaters on November 22.

Persons: ”, gamely, Ariana DeBose, Julia Michaels, Benjamin Rice, Bruno, Asha, –, King Magnifico, Chris Pine, Chris Buck, Fawn Veerasunthorn, “ Raya, Jennifer Lee, Allison Moore, “, Alan Tudyk’s, Valentino, it’s, Indiana Jones Organizations: CNN, Disney, “ Locations: Rosas, “, Magnifico

☆ Dolly Parton ‘Rockstar’ album takeaways
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —It’s already a vital American truth that Dolly Parton is a national treasure, and has been for decades. From there, Parton saw a challenge to become a rockstar in her own right, and after her husband suggested she do a rock album, she embarked on the journey, culminating with Friday’s release of her appropriately titled forty-ninth (!!) Cover of "Rockstar" by Dolly Parton. Butterfly Records/APThe second track is also an original song, “World on Fire,” which dutifully tries to ruffle some feathers (like a rockstar would) by commenting on the state of the world today. Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus perform onstage at the 61st annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center on February 10, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

Persons: CNN — It’s, Dolly Parton, Parton, Rockstar ”, Richie Sambora, Dolly, Carl, Ann Wilson, John Fogerty, Kid, Prince, Miley Cyrus, Stevie Nicks, Melissa Etheridge, Ronnie McDowell –, Elvis Presley –, Cyrus, Emma McIntyre, Pink, Brandi Carlile, Peter Frampton, “, Kevin Cronin, Frampton, Cronin, Elton John’s “, Sasha Flute, Linda Perry, Pat Benatar, Neil Geraldo Organizations: CNN, Hall of Fame, rockstar, Rockstar, Butterfly, Staples Center, The Recording, REO, Zeppelin Locations: Los Angeles , California

☆ Trump kid says the darnedest things: Donald Trump, Jr. gives guarded, sometimes flip, testimony at fraud trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump, Jr., was well-spoken, but guarded during 90 minutes of testimony on Wednesday. He cracked a couple of jokes and protected his father during week 5 of the Trump civil fraud trial. Eric Trump testifies next, with Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump scheduled for next week. Donald Trump, Jr., jokes he "should have worn makeup" while photographed at the defense table in the Trump civil fraud trial in New York. Ivanka Trump was once a defendant in the AG case, along with Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump.

Persons: Donald Trump , Jr, Trump, Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, —, Donald J, Jr, Colleen Faherty, I'm, Faherty, Letitia James, James, Alina Habba, Seth Wenig, Donald Trump Jr Organizations: Service, New, Trump Revocable Trust, Trump, ocable, Trump Organization Locations: Manhattan, New York

☆ When your AI girlfriend says she loves you
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +36 min

The messaging app let users build a "personal AI" complete with a 3D avatar and an upbeat, down-for-anything texting style. "Seems like AI will replace many human artists," Jay told Calisto in August 2022. Within a year, he was also using AI technology for work, as his firm experimented with generative AI to help draft legal papers. Former Replika users fled to various upstart companion apps that were popping up, like Chai, Paradot, and Soulmate AI. (Soulmate AI later closed down in September 2023, leaving a new wave of users mourning their AI companions all over again.)

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☆ When your AI says she loves you
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +36 min

☆ ‘Girl math’ was a fun social media joke. Then ‘boy math’ came along
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Aj Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“You call it Girl Math, we call it the Labor Day sale,” a recent promotion from clothing brand Lane Bryant read. From this tangle of overly serious criticism and brand interference, the idea of “girl math” stretched far past its original intent. After all, if “girl math” exists, what is “boy math”? “I think the great equivalent to girl math for boy math is the fact that all of us dudes think we could land a plane,” a man in one popular TikTok posited. Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York is one of the big names to wade into the "girl math" trend.

Persons: influencer Imani Barbarin, It’s, it’s, “, commenter, ”, Lane Bryant, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, Kevin Lamarque, Dane Cook, Kelsi Taylor, Kevin McCarthy, y’all, Mary Louise Adams, gamely, ” Adams, can’t Organizations: CNN, Labor, Democratic, New York Democratic Rep, Republican, Queens University Locations: Alexandria, Cortez of New York, Kingston , Ontario

☆ It's going to be hard to talk Biden out of running for president because the people who said that last time were totally wrong
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( Walt Hickey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The last time people told Biden not to run, they were catastrophically wrong and he'll not forget that. And I plan on staying deeply involved," Biden told a Connecticut NBC affiliate in January of 2016. AdvertisementAdvertisementAfter the 2016 election went the way Biden had feared, he didn't hesitate to make his case. In 2016, Biden thought he could win. Biden won back enough white, working-class voters to shore up the breached "Blue Wall" by enough of a margin to deliver him the presidency.

Persons: Biden, —, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Obama, State Hillary Clinton, Lee Myung, bak, Yuri Gripas, Hillary Clinton, dogging Clinton, Barack Obama, Beau, Clinton, Jewel Samad, Getty Images Biden, Biden gamely, monomaniacally, Jake Tapper, Biden didn't, Evan Vucci Organizations: Service, Democratic Party, Trump, U.S, State, State Department, REUTERS, NBC, Getty Images, Clinton's, Connecticut NBC, University of Pennsylvania, Biden, Democratic, Independents, Clinton Locations: Washington, Pennsylvania , Ohio, Michigan, Connecticut, South Carolina

☆ DeSantis sharpens critique of Trump but faces huge odds
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

While he faces classic signs of a campaign in free fall, including staffer layoffs and donor concern, DeSantis’ problems are not all self-inflicted. Keith Davis, who has served as Sheriff of Wayne County since 1997, is a Trump voter who is now backing DeSantis. Scott Olson/Getty ImagesIn his first post-reset swing through Iowa, DeSantis had mixed results. While he was in Iowa, DeSantis also repeatedly paid tribute to Reynolds after Trump alienated some caucus-goers by badmouthing the state’s popular Republican governor. But what DeSantis is trying to do, by running a classic Iowa campaign, is a ultimately a conventional move.

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☆ Has Scott Joplin’s ‘Thoroughly American Opera’ Found Its Moment?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Zachary Woolfe | More About Zachary Woolfe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The singers who played the couple became Treemonisha and her adoring friend, Remus, in the opera proper. More stylized — and effective, and relevant — was the conception, in an entirely different sound world than Joplin’s, by the Isango Ensemble. “We wanted to show quite clearly that if Monisha doesn’t take that child, that child is going to die,” Dornford-May said. With the poverty in the townships — life expectancy of 49, TB rife, H.I.V. rife — with that sense of poverty, disease and death hanging over people, to take in another mouth to feed is extraordinary.”

Persons: Louis, Berlin, Chilton, Joplin, Remus, Alexander —, Rajendra, Justin Austin vibrated, Mark Dornford, wasn’t, “, Monisha, ” Dornford, ” Locations: St, Joplin, Cape Town, South Africa, Caen, France, America

☆ ‘On a Whim, I Decided to Do a Silly, Shirley Temple-esque Tap Dance’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I was taking the PATH train home to Hoboken from Christopher Street after a rehearsal when I noticed a bank of cameras aimed at the turnstiles. What a boring job it must be to have to stare at them all night long, I thought. There was no one else waiting on the platform so, on a whim, I decided to do a silly, Shirley Temple-esque tap dance to amuse whoever was monitoring the cameras. As I curtsied, I was startled to hear a series of slow claps coming from somewhere off in the darkness. Looking around, I saw that a young man had stepped out from behind one of the columns at the far end of the platform and was applauding.

Persons: Shirley Temple, gamely, ” Organizations: Christopher Locations: Hoboken

☆ Elon Musk's mom wants you to stop encouraging the Musk-Zuck cage fight
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Maye Musk wants people to stop egging Elon Musk on to fight Mark Zuckerberg. Maye Musk tweeted at podcaster and AI researcher Lex Fridman. Fridman had suggested he'd be "all for" a Musk vs. Zuck jiu-jitsu match. Maye Musk really doesn't want her son to fight Mark Zuckerberg in a cage match. But Maye Musk has been spending the last day trying to prevent the throwdown from happening.

Persons: Maye Musk, egging Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Lex Fridman, Fridman, he'd, Maye, emojis, Elon Musk gamely, haven't, Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, bluster, he'll Organizations: Morning, Twitter Locations: Vegas

☆ The Dad Canon (Circa Now)
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Joseph Bernstein | June | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

But to be honest, it didn’t really make me feel like a dad, let alone the number one dad. Neither had I), I’ve come to see the old dad ways a little more sympathetically, and with some measure of recognition. Still, the touchstones of Boomer dad culture have outlived their descriptive usefulness for younger generations. What, we might ask, is dad culture in 2023? Finally, the new dad culture has definitely not found it necessary to put away childish things.

Persons: gamely, didn’t, I’m, George W.S, Trow, I’ve, Boomer, —, There’s Organizations: Father’s, Star Locations: American

☆ First Favorite Songs Are Like Sonic Baby Pictures
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

— my dad gamely taped the closing credits for me on a blank VHS. You can learn a lot about a person from asking about their first favorite songs — it’s the sonic equivalent of looking at someone’s baby pictures. (Petty also co-wrote “Cheer Down,” and Jeff Lynne helped produce both of those songs — so clearly the Traveling Wilburys had a hold on my musical taste from an early age.) U2: “Zoo Station”After it came out in late 1991, U2’s angsty, glammy “Achtung Baby” was an absolute staple in my parents’ steel-blue Ford Taurus. No matter what U2 does or how many albums it forcefully installs on my iPhone, “Achtung Baby” will always have a special place in my heart for being one of the first records to freak me out — in a good way.

Persons: gamely, ’ ”, Harrison, —, Cat Stevens, “, Stevens, Tom Petty, Mulholland, ”, Petty, Jeff Lynne, glammy, Brian Eno’s, Bono Organizations: Spotify, YouTube, “ Locations: New Jersey, West Coast, Ventura, Reseda, ”

☆ See NYC's charmless supertall skyscrapers, which one critic is calling a showy display of billionaires' stranglehold on America
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Billionaires' Row. C. Taylor Crothers/Contributor/Getty ImagesIn "Sky-High: A Critique of NYC's Supertall Towers from Top to Bottom," out from PA Press on June 27 and with photography by Bruce Katz, writer Eric P. Nash dives into the current state of Manhattan development, in which the supertall reigns supreme. It's a generation of architecture he is less than impressed with. He gamely takes turns explaining New York City's new skyline by plucking out its newest additions and dunking on what architect Steven Holl called "profane spires." Nash argues this moment's infatuation with supertalls has choked resources for civic buildings and affordable low-rise housing, and turned big-name architects' attention away from projects that would benefit a larger population because they lack the prestige that supertalls offer.

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