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Faye Dunaway being shot in a scene from the film "Bonnie and Clyde,” 1967.

How Slow Motion Became Cinema’s Dominant Special Effect

The turbulent late ’60s saw the technique’s popularity explode—and it’s been helping moviemakers (and literary artists) engage with the unsettling tempos of modern life ever since.

An illustration of FDR blowing what looks like a dandelion but is in fact parachutiists and war airplanes

Why America Got a Warfare State, Not a Welfare State

How FDR invented national security, and why Democrats need to move on from it

The WNBA Is a Perfectly Choreographed TV Drama

A photo illustration of many hands and a pair of fists reaching towards a golden basketball

The WNBA Is a Perfectly Choreographed TV Drama

Books & the Arts

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Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

Inside the Predatory World of Multilevel Marketing

Is MLM a massive scam or an all-American business tradition—or both?

Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal in “Materialists.”

Celine Song’s Materialists Tries to Subvert the Rom-Com

The filmmaker’s follow-up to Past Lives is cerebral and frank about wealth and romance.