Justin Charity
Senior Staff Writer
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A Candid Discussion About Olivia Rodrigo, ‘Guts,’ and Her Supposed “Feud” With Taylor Swift
Is Rodrigo carving out a new identity as a rock star? Or is she destined to remain a pop artist, like her idol Taylor Swift? Speaking of—what’s the deal with those two? Two Ringer writers try to piece it all together.
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Reddit Is No Longer the “Weird” Social Media. It’s Also Not Quite Normal.
There’s the Reddit of ‘Dumb Money’ that prompted a major fiasco in the finance industry, and then there’s the Reddit of celebrity AMAs and refining your pedestrian Google searches. On today’s Reddit, you can have both.
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‘The Changeling’ and the State of Black Prestige TV
Though it’s not an outright race-focused series, the new Apple TV+ drama is clearly in the vein of shows like ‘Them’ and ‘Lovecraft Country’
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Live-Action ‘One Piece’ Season 1 Instant Reactions
Charles, Jessica, and Justin get together to break down the latest anime turned live-action series and explore why so many previous ones failed
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Oliver Anthony, Jason Aldean, and the State of the Pop-Chart Culture Wars
A discussion of pop music and country’s big, strange summer on the charts. Plus: Where do Morgan Wallen’s continued popularity and the discourse around Luke Combs’s "Fast Car" cover fit in?
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Hip-Hop Is 50 Years Old. What Might Its Next 50 Years Look Like?
To answer that question, The Ringer sat down with Dr. A.D. Carson, a professor of hip-hop at the University of Virginia and a rapper in his own right, to talk about the challenges facing the genre going forward
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Hollywood’s Double-Edged Reckoning With AI
The WGA and SAG-AFTRA aren’t inherently against artificial intelligence. They just need to see a vision for it.
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What Happens When Everyone Isn’t on the Same App?
Twitter’s position as the one microblogging platform for everyone was always the great thing about Twitter but also, in large part, the problem with Twitter. Can Instagram Threads provide a middle ground?
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We Found Missing Script Pages from ‘The Idol’
This show was definitely supposed to run for six episodes, right? The cut scenes we reviewed that are unquestionably 100 percent authentic suggest that it was.
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‘Hijack’ Is Idris Elba at His TV Thriller Best
Though he’s once again playing a middle-aged divorcé, Idris Elba seems rejuvenated in ‘Hijack’ after a disappointing conclusion to ‘Luther’