While it’s an iconic line from her career-making film Legally Blonde, it’s also a mantra Reese Witherspoon lives by. The actress-turned-media-company owner has long had the grit required to ideate, found, and sell a near-billion-dollar company that flipped Hollywood’s script on its head. (And this week, she bought it back.) By the time Witherspoon was
The Best Science Stories and How They Work Ed. Siri Carpenter Univ. Chicago Press (2026) “It’s all too easy to misperceive science journalism as existing in a bubble,” writes science journalist Siri Carpenter, introducing her edited collection. It reprints 11 wide-ranging science articles by different writers, published across newspapers, magazines and journals, including Nature. Each
Budapest’s most famous ruin bar is on tons of tourists’ must-visit lists, and it can get packed — but I believe it’s something you should see at least once. The eclectic decor, which has been layered over the decades, makes each room feel different from the last. Exploring the whole complex feels like an adventure.
Smiling on the January 1987 cover of Ms., the magazine co-founded by feminism pioneer Gloria Steinem, are its 12 Women of the Year. They include a U.S. senator, a renowned novelist, a former nun who helped Central American refugees. And, smiling brightest of all, Dolly Parton. The beloved country superstar, who died this week at
Channel 5 boss Ben Frow said he would never have commissioned a drama about Sarah Everard for his network. Jeff Pope is penning a drama about the investigation into Everard’s 2021 murder for the BBC. Frow, chief content officer at Paramount-owned public service broadcaster 5, said that while he was sure Pope would do a
When Sarah Reeve got engaged, she gave her fiancé Lee an ultimatum: he had to pay his debt before she married him. “I was paying my mortgage and my bills while he was giving his mother some rent,” Sarah says of their situations when they met in their early 20s. “I told him I wouldn’t
