Posts by Sophie Clearwater
The True Story Behind Netflix’s ‘The Widower: Til Death Do Us Part’
Except when Slepian and O’Kelley teamed up, neither realized they were embarking on a 15-year journey—one that would eventually expose the truth about Randolph, a former paralegal who received life-insurance payouts after three of his previous wives all died under suspicious circumstances. Over the years, Randolph, known as the Black Widower, would escape two death…
Read MoreCornell Sex Assault Case Raises Questions About Title IX Accountability and New York’s Intoxicated Consent Law
Two years after a woman alleged a gang rape at Cornell University, renewed attention to the case and the limited consequences faced by the alleged perpetrators has raised questions about what higher education owes students who experience sexual assault on campus as well as how consent and intoxication are understood under New York law. A…
Read MoreChrista Pike likely has ‘brain injury’ after botched execution — here’s what went wrong: ‘Degraded’ drugs, damaged veins
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike will likely have brain damage after her botched execution, during which she chillingly lifted her head and asked if the pain she was feeling was normal. Pike, 50, was rushed to the hospital Wednesday after the Tennessee Department of Corrections administered two doses of the highly potent sedative, Pentobarbital,…
Read MoreMike Flanagan’s Timely ‘Carrie’ Is the First Worthwhile Adaptation in 50 Years
You can find support for each of these readings in King’s own reflections. “The book is, in its more adult implications, an uneasy masculine shrinking from a future of female equality,” he wrote in his 1981 nonfiction book Danse Macabre. “For me, Carrie White is a sadly misused teenager, an example of the sort of…
Read MoreBringing Up Bates’ Gil Bates Hospitalized After Suffering Heart Attack
“Looking back on my childhood and the way that my parents raised me, I can’t think of anything that was negative,” Erin Bates Pain (who joined the fam on May 2, 1991) told People. “Everything, looking back, is really positive, and we made the best memories.” While they didn’t have a television “we substituted that…
Read MoreJim Carrey Marries Min Ah in Private Wedding Ceremony
Jim Carrey is living in eternal sunshine—no spotless mind needed. And that’s because 64-year-old and his partner Min Ah have officially tied the knot, a spokesperson for Carrey confirmed to E! News Sept. 30. This marks Carrey’s third time walking down the aisle; he was first married to Melissa Womer, with whom he shares daughter…
Read MoreAt Restaurant St. Barts, Johnnie Crowe Celebrates Britain’s Culinary Bounty
Johnnie Crowe. Nathan Neeve It’s a warm summer day in late July in London, and the bounty of the British Isles is on display at Restaurant St. Barts. A rich bite of raw Belted Galloway beef on toast; a pot of English peas on a Japanese-inspired chawanmushi custard; slices of St. Bride’s duck served with…
Read MoreAccused plane hijacker is religious extremist who refused to shake women’s hands: ‘We hired a terrorist’
The flydubai staffer accused of trying to hijack a plane carrying 174 people to Israel by stabbing the lead pilot was known as a religious extremist who refused to shake hands with women, according to a colleague. The co-pilot responsible for what Israel’s defense minister called “a jihadist terrorist attack” Wednesday has not been named…
Read MoreFact-Checking What Donald Trump Said in His Latest Interview With TIME
What Trump Said: “Look, we’re building more automobile plants in the United States, and bigger ones, than we’ve ever built before.” The Facts: Instead of building new factories, automakers appear to be largely adapting current ones. General Motors has also announced plans to convert a number of internal combustion engine plants—located in Michigan, Tennessee, Ohio,…
Read MoreDonald Trump Has Appeared on the Cover of TIME More Than Anyone Else
The night before, Trump had been greeted at the helipad by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and his wife Cami Clark, who joined the President for a late-night dinner. It was part of another whirlwind week that included a speech before the U.N. General Assembly and hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping and his delegation at the…
Read MoreThe President and the Press
The relationship between Presidents and the press is inherently adversarial. Since the emergence of a modern mass media and a professional White House press corps in the early 20th century, Presidents have sought to use journalists to disseminate their ideas, goals, and achievements—and have treated coverage that deviates from their spin as misleading, hostile, or…
Read MoreWhat Trump Has Built
Trump’s contribution to the debate about AI safeguards has been to announce the formation of an “AI Force,” which he now wants to rename the “SI Force”—part of his effort to rebrand artificial intelligence as “super intelligence.” Asked what the group will do, Trump responds: “It’s going to be super intelligent.” Pressed further, he explains…
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