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Why Sick Patients Are So Drawn to Cable News
Battling leukemia, my mom kept turning to CNN and Chris Cuomo. It turns out that cable news has a positive effect on some hospitalized people — even though it can make healthy folks feel like trash
How the Pandemic Made Gossip Essential Again
From the ‘Gossip Girl’ reboot and TikTok tea accounts to DeuxMoi and even the New York Times, a cultural hankering for gossip has come back in a big way
Leta Powell Drake Finally Got Her 15 Minutes of Fame — 40 Years After the Fact
An interview with the ‘greatest interviewer of all time,’ Leta Drake — the viral 82-year-old Nebraska anchor who told Elliott Gould he couldn’t act
The World of Anti-Fake-News Video Games
Democracy might have eked out a win, but misinformation campaigns are only getting stronger. That’s where games like ‘Harmony Square’ come in
