Now what? After four years of manias and catastrophizing, with constant warnings about the “existential threat” posed by Donald Trump, the monster is dead. Trump, the democratic Saddam, has lost, and his metaphorical statue will soon be dragged out of the White House, to the cheers of nearly every pundit …
Read More »Bassist Guy Pratt on Touring With Pink Floyd and the Time He Nearly Joined the Smiths
Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
Read More »Justin Townes Earle's Perpetual Search for Forgiveness
Before the dusty down-and-out protagonist is ready to give up on life in “Yuma,” one of Justin Townes Earle‘s earliest songs, he calls his mom. “There ain’t nothing I fear,” he tells her, “so much as being alone.” Released in 2007, ”Yuma” is astonishing in its emotional tenderness, a song …
Read More »'RS Interview: Special Edition' With Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr‘s 80th birthday is coming up on July 7th, and we’re celebrating with an in-depth conversation on the latest episode of the Rolling Stone Interview: Special Edition video series.“Man, I’m only 24 in here,” Starr says, pointing to his head. “And I’m still doing what I love to do. …
Read More »With Couples Rethinking Children, We Might See the Opposite of a COVID-19 Baby Boom
Lita Danlag, 29, an ICU nurse from Fort Walton Beach, Florida, had spent more than a year trying to get pregnant. In the winter of 2019, she and her husband suffered a devastating blow when they lost a pregnancy, but they continued trying to the point that it became a …
Read More »Ahmaud Arbery Should Be Alive
Emmett Till was lynched 65 years ago, but it has been only three since Carolyn Bryant Donham admitted that her lie got him killed. She copped to what, I’d wager, most black Americans had already figured when she gave a rare interview to Duke University professor Timothy B. Tyson, who …
Read More »While Trump Advised Against Wearing Masks, White House Staff Were Provided with Thousands
Responding to an urgent March 14 appeal from the National Security Council, Taiwan sent the United States hundreds of thousands of masks — 3,600 of which were specially earmarked for White House staff and officials. At the same time they were privately scrambling to procure these masks, the Trump administration …
Read More »Jane Fonda Fights On
On a recent winter day, Jane Fonda pops out of a side room, looking every bit the Hollywood celebrity-activist that Trumpistas hate. The blond hair someone once described as needing its own agent is perfect, and her white blouse is stylish. She cradles her lapdog Tulea in her arms. We …
Read More »Coronavirus Is Loose in America. An Expert Explains Why You Shouldn't Panic
Efforts to block the global spread of coronavirus appear to have failed, but that does not mean you should panic, says Angela Rasmussen, a virologist who serves on the faculty at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University’s school of public health. Related: The CDC’s ‘Disease Detectives’ Are …
Read More »New Hampshire 2020: In Supreme Irony, the Horse Race Favors Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night. Second-place finisher Pete Buttigieg earned 24.4 percent of the vote, while Amy Klobuchar, not long ago polling in single digits, came out of nowhere with 19.8 percent, a classic New Hampshire outlier result. The words “eked” and “narrowly” are getting a …
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