A conversation with the comedian.

JW: You’ve talked about how you’ve had to explain moral lessons to your daughters, but do it in an inarticulate, catchy way. It’s almost as though you’re writing material for them. What’s the place of morality and ethics in your comedy? I think those are questions people live with all the time, and I think there’s a lazy not answering of them now, everyone sheepishly goes, “Oh, I’m just not doing it, I’m not doing the right thing.” There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don’t know what that is, I’m really curious about that. I’m really curious about what people think they’re doing when they’re doing something evil, casually.

Her grandfather, she found out decades after he died, was not her grandfather. Who did that make her?

“I think I knew that at heart I was an aging spinster.”

How two couples found a way to play the preschool system for profit.

Trump’s Commerce pick and a government by, and for, the super-rich.

Israel Keyes confessed to multiple murders, but committed suicide before revealing all the details.

As the birds decline, one Icelandic island keeps throwing a rowdy, boozy puffin festival.

A sociologist’s controversial first book and the debate over who gets to speak for whom.

On his legacy, his impact on California, and why “saints should be judged guilty until proven innocent.”

USB sticks bearing digital video are the new radio.

Jack Nicholson interviewed at 73.

“His life with the virus would be his witness, his public testimony. Performance as life, and life as performance.”

Troughout his life, Hernández has been known as one thing: a soccer player. But last year, that identifier stopped being enough.

Colonialism, the convertible peso, and the strange dance between the cheap beach tourist and the tour guide tout.

During the pandemic, people from the author’s hometown got sucked into QAnon and the Q-adjacent “Save the Children” movement.

Inside a restaurant lawsuit.

Michael Chow’s complaint, which sought $21 million in damages, alleged that the team behind Philippe, including chef Philippe Chau, restaurateur Stratis Morfogen (also behind the well-received Ciano) and several codefendants, appropriated the Satay recipe and 11 other Mr Chow standbys, the “modern” decor of Mr Chow’s restaurants and even the name Chow—thereby engaging in deceptive trade practices, swiping trade secrets and infringing on the Mr Chow trademark.

On the current state of the global economy and the inevitable decline of the U.K. and the U.S.:

A decade-long slowdown would accelerate this shift in global wealth and power and would be a grim thing to live through, but from a world-historical perspective it might not be a game-changer: it might just be the non-scenic route to the place we’re going anyway.

On switching to the gold standard and a trip to the Yukon to witness the modern gold rush.

The Supreme Court justice on gay rights, the problem with consensus, and the Devil.

In the late 90s, an American man adopted a 5-year-old from the Ukraine. A decade later, one of the two would be accused of molesting young boys. The other would be charged with murder.

A ride-along with the guys tasked with demolishing the city’s 10,000 “abandoned, godforsaken homes.”

Why did I ever believe a teen girl could hold all the power?

“Fast food and hedge funds. That’s where we’re going.”