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T his is a very serious and deep question,” says RM, the 26-year-old leader of the world’s biggest band. He pauses to think. We’re talking about utopian and dystopian futures, about how the boundary-smashing, hegemony-overturning global success of his group, the wildly talented seven-member South Korean juggernaut BTS, feels like …

When You author Caroline Kepnes sat down to write the third book in the series, You Love Me, she made like main character Joe Goldberg: She stalked the living daylights out of random residents of Bainbridge Island to get a sense of the place — a.k.a. Joe’s new home. Joe …

Exclusive releases from Pearl Jam, Ariana Grande, Tom Petty, Rage Against the Machine and U2 are among this year’s Record Store Day Drops, set for June 12th and July 17th at independent record stores nationwide. The Who, the Zombies, the Doors, Beastie Boys (their hardcore 1995 EP Aglio E Olio), …

Anna B Savage keeps writing about birds, but she’s not sure why. Her debut album, A Common Turn, released in January, is full of them: swallows, corncrakes, doves, and in one punny instance, a song about terns. “I’m still trying to work this one out,” she says. “When I was …

Of all his post-Beatles undertakings, George Harrison was especially fond of All Things Must Pass, the 1970 triple-LP set he released months after the group had officially imploded. “It was a really nice experience making that album — because I was really a bit paranoid, musically,” Harrison said a few …

At the vice presidential debate Wednesday Sen. Kamala Harris delivered an indictment of the death and economic destruction unleashed by the Trump administration, which Mike Pence responded to with a litany of lies, dodges, and slippery evasions. Unlike the first presidential debate, the vice presidential debate was recognizable as such. …

This story originally appeared in The Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. To understand the planetary importance of this autumn’s presidential election, check the calendar. Voting ends on November 3rd — and by a fluke …

Eighteen years ago, Kanye West was proud as punch to have signed to Roc-A-Fella, which he called “the hottest rap label in the world.” West was a superproducer at this point, but leading figures in hip-hop doubted his abilities as a frontman. “I never really had a good rapper story,” …

Last October, standing on the front porch of a small two-story house that had seen better days, I witnessed one of the more unsettling conversations of my adult life. I had embedded with a team of community organizers in Alamance County, North Carolina, an hour’s drive west of Raleigh. This …

Kelly Preston, the actress best known for her role as the fiancée of Tom Cruise’s character in Jerry Maguire, died Sunday. She was 57. The actress’s husband, John Travolta, shared the news on InstagramMonday. “It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that my beautiful wife Kelly …