Daily Cartoon: Thursday, June 5th

Play a Pack of Beginner-Friendly Cryptic Crosswords

Cryptic clues are bite-size riddles, each with the same structure: half the clue is a definition of the answer, and the other half is a bit of oblique wordplay suggesting the same answer. For those accustomed to standard American crossword puzzles, cryptics may seem like a daunting challenge, but few cruciverbal pleasures surpass that of […]

The Explosion of Matt Gaetz and Other Early Lessons in Trump 2.0

That was fast. Barely two weeks after winning reëlection, Donald Trump has already so thoroughly owned the news cycle that I’m not sure anyone even recalls that Joe Biden is still President. (It was his eighty-second birthday on Wednesday, by the way.) One of the themes of this year’s campaign was the apparent mass amnesia […]

The Killers’ Return to Las Vegas

A tense and anticipatory silence engulfed the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. It didn’t last long, but an entire universe of waiting seemed to unfold in mere seconds. Then a series of brightly familiar guitar notes twirled up from the stage and hung suspended in the arena like a set of Christmas lights. The lead singer […]