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The fierce competition to get married at California’s most popular public buildings
SANTA BARBARA — The late-morning sun peeked through a gauzy veil of fog, bright laughter echoing over the giddy whisper of tulle as the brides posed for pictures outside the Santa Barbara County Courthouse. Moments earlier, Zoë Weber and Jordan Cantor of Hollywood had traded vows above the compound’s famous Sunken Garden. The brief, heartfelt legal ceremony…
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How to keep your cool when it feels like everything is going wrong
I don’t do well with stress. Even minor inconveniences can throw me off my game, turning a mildly bad day into a complete five-alarm fire. If someone asks a single thing of me during one of these spirals, I’m likely to blow up. Whether you’ve woken up on the wrong side of the bed or…
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Climate change isn’t taking food off your table
No morning ritual is safe from climate alarm. In June, the journal Nature declared that coffee is “critically threatened by climate change” and described scientists racing to save your espresso from “extinction.” The New York Times blames sky-high coffee prices on climate-driven supply crunches in Brazil and Vietnam. And your olive oil? CNN and Bloomberg…
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Paramount deal turns into a ‘nightmare’ as clock ticks down to millions in penalties
Paramount head David Ellison’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is unraveling, with a coalition of 12 states filing a blockbuster antitrust lawsuit designed to derail the merger as the media executive faces a financial time bomb that could cost him hundreds of millions of dollars. According to media watchdog Status, Monday’s complaint, filed…
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This Luddite Puppet Hopes You’re Not Reading This on Your Smartphone
Gowanus the media puppet probably shouldn’t even be talking to me. Made of literal garbage—his origin story is that he was born in a dumpster in his namesake neighborhood in Brooklyn—he’s the media representative for the Summer of Ludd, a Luddite festival that took place in New York earlier this month. The festival, which WIRED…
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Trump greenlights California’s dumbest water project
On July 9, the Trump administration delivered a gift to Cadiz Inc., a politically well-connected firm that has been trying for decades to win approval for a scheme to pump water out of the Mojave Desert and market it to water agencies across the Southland. The administration approved the company’s application to convert an abandoned…
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How singing with other people can help you move through grief and despair
I used to think I could change the world. More than that: because I could, I felt the responsibility to do it. I was 22 when I helped lead a delegation of young people to the United Nations. There, we pressured presidents and prime ministers to reduce carbon emissions, hoping to prevent the horrors of…
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Trump melts down at ‘shaky’ ABC anchor reporting on latest Reflecting Pool saga
President Donald Trump launched into a fresh Truth Social tirade overnight, this time aiming at ABC News and anchor David Muir over the network’s coverage of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool being drained yet again. On Monday’s World News Tonight, Muir noted the pool had been emptied again. “Tonight, the reflecting pool in the nation’s…
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I had to push my organs back up inside my body on a regular basis — but doctors said nothing was wrong
Working as a deli manager, Rashan Williams needs to lift some heavy boxes. It was while bending over to do that when she would notice something “shift.” It wasn’t painful. But she knew something was wrong, especially when she went to the bathroom. “I would wipe. I would feel a bulge, like something was hanging…
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In Defense of Reading Books
—Deagreez—Getty Images At a recent family gathering, a close relative told me he couldn’t remember the last time he read a book. “What about listening to audiobooks?” I asked. “Nope,” he said nonchalantly. He wasn’t offering a confession tinged with embarrassment or shame, nor was he boasting. He was simply shrugging off books as if…