Articles filed under Washington Post
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Book review: Memo to baby boomers, from millennials: Everything's your faultAug 18, 2020 6:00 am - "OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind" by Jill Filipovic (Atria/One Signal) Approximately one million years ago, in 2019, the long-simmering gen...
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For those facing dementia, diagnostic tool nothing to brag aboutAug 16, 2020 8:00 am - Jay Reinstein remembers the day he took the cognitive test President Donald Trump keeps bragging about. “One of the questions was to draw a clock at a certain time, and ...
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Literary fantasy unevenly blends with civil rights era in HBO's 'Lovecraft Country'Aug 16, 2020 7:29 am - HBO's horror drama "Lovecraft Country," premiering at 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 16, on HBO, arrives at an opportune moment in American culture, with big, scary metaphors about...
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Jonathan Majors is your new American heroAug 16, 2020 7:22 am - The hero's journey is a circuitous one. After setting out into the great unknown, battling monsters and men, our protagonist inevitably winds up at Point A again, ready ...
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Grocery workers say morale at all-time low: 'They don't even treat us like humans anymore'Aug 16, 2020 6:20 am - This spring, for the first time, Angel Manners found purpose and pride at the supermarket where she has worked the past decade. Customers praised her as a hero for putti...
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Q&A with Yo-Yo Ma: How music can be like touch during these socially distant timesAug 15, 2020 7:28 am - Since March, national arts reporter Geoff Edgers has been grounded by the novel coronavirus. So every Friday and many Tuesday afternoons, he hosts The Washington Post's ...
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The best-kept secret in documentaries? It's all in the castingAug 15, 2020 7:26 am - The documentary "Boys State" follows four Texas teenagers as they navigate the title summer leadership program in their home state, an intense weeklong lesson in running...
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Back-to-school laptop guide: Pandemic survival editionAug 15, 2020 6:25 am - Pencils, paper and crayons? No, this year's most important back-to-school supply is a computer. After a scramble when COVID-19 first shut classrooms in the spring, many ...
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For Uber, the 'stall game' averts a reckoning over driver payAug 15, 2020 6:13 am - Uber Technologies Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi's warning that the company may have to temporarily shut down in California is textbook strategy for the ride-...
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'I Used to Go Here' an observant Carbondale-set film comedyAug 13, 2020 6:00 am - “I Used to Go Here” - ★ ★ ★ There must be a German word for it: That feeling of instant familiarity and creeping displacement that sets upon the young-middle-aged ...