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Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox. By invading Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has triggered not only Western sanctions but a mass corporate flight …

Comedians Kevin Hart and Chris Rock are household names after their decades-long careers, now giving fans a tour they didn’t know they needed. The comic powerhouses announced their joint summer tour on Monday via Twitter, aptly named “Rock Hart: Only Headliners Allowed.” The comedy tour will span across five days, …

A Bel-Air Conversation with Uncle Phil and Aunt Viv Bel-Air stars, Adrian Holmes and Cassandra Freeman, talk about Black love and excellence in the Banks’ household. Latest on The Root A Bel-Air Conversation with Uncle Phil and Aunt Viv The Struggle Puff: The Goated Natural Hair Go-To Black Influencers Take …

In New Malden, they owned a corner shop together. It was the place where you could get the gossip magazines and newspapers from Seoul. Then, when everyone got smartphones, it became the place to get your smartphone cases: cute cats, cows, hippos. Gel pens, too. The students picked out a …

In a bizarre turn of events, former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner admitted he impersonated his then-wife, Chinese heiress Judy Chan to convince his now estranged wife, businesswoman Kimora Lee Simmons, that his marriage to Chan was over, Bloomberg reports. The German-born investment banker testified under oath on Tuesday as …

Photo: MGS (Shutterstock) If we’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s that our elected officials don’t always make the best decisions. In the latest case of “you can’t make this stuff up,” a South Carolina County Councilman showed up to a March 4 community event in Greenville wearing …

Each installment of “The Friendship Files” features a conversation between The Atlantic’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship. This week she talks with two women who forged a friendship in crisis. When Sarah’s husband left her for another woman—while she was …

If you’ve even endeavored into video marketing, then you know just how time-consuming and frustrating plodding through videos seeking information can be. While frustrating, it’s needed to retrieve and break down information. Wouldn’t it be great if a program could do it for you? VidTags can, and for a limited …

Photo: TasfotoNL (Shutterstock) We’ve all seen those electronic road signs on the highway every day that read, “Expect Delays,” or “Wear a Seatbelt,” or “Traffic Ahead.” In Hagerstown, Maryland someone decided it would be a funny idea to hack an electronic message sign overnight to display a racial slur. It …

In one early scene in Lauren Oyler’s novel Fake Accounts, the narrator snoops through her boyfriend’s phone. His apps are arranged in an unfamiliar way, and looking with fresh eyes makes all the colorful options—a camera, an internet browser, two ride-sharing services—immediately overwhelming. “The effect was to prevent the eye …