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While their parents might have paired a bold cabernet with a hearty steak dinner, Gen Z has been dubbed the “sober curious” generation. More than half of young US consumers claimed in one survey that they hadn’t touched alcohol in six months.But they’re not turning away from wine, industry leaders insist: just drinking it differently.The focus is on less strength, and more flavor, according to Lily Taggart, 21, a New York City chef. “It’s hard to forge connections if you’re drinking high [alcohol by volume] ABV and can’t remember conversations the next day.”“Gen Z is taking the pretentiousness of wine…

In The Making of the English Working Class, the leftwing historian EP Thompson made a point of challenging the condescension of history towards luddism, the original anti-tech movement. The early 19th-century croppers and weavers who rebelled against new technologies should not be written off as “blindly resisting machinery”, wrote Thompson in his classic history. They were opposing a laissez-faire logic that dismissed its disastrous impact on their lives.A distinction worth bearing in mind as Britain rolls out the red carpet for US big tech, thereby outsourcing a modern industrial revolution still in its infancy. Photographers, coders and writers, for example,…

Celebrities are the “hot ones,” but they’re giving the cold shoulder to traditional media, at least in podcast form. In the shifting landscape of Hollywood publicity, a curious paradox has emerged: the most press-averse celebrities are suddenly embracing the very medium that demands the most intimate conversation. The traditional press junket, with its rowdy hotel suites and rotating carousel of journalists armed with the same five questions, is giving way to podcasters. Stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, who has spent decades perfecting the art of strategic media avoidance, recently settled into the surprisingly comfortable confines of Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce’s…

European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald is “so proud” of his team after they win the Ryder Cup in New York after “some of the most stressful hours of my life”.

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Elon Musk has repeatedly promised that Tesla’s humanoid robot revolution is just around the corner. So far, however, his Optimus prototypes seem to spend most of their time mixing cocktails and searching for soft drinks in office breakrooms. Meanwhile, companies like Fourier continue to show off its disconcertingly agile bipedal bot, the N1. Earlier this month, the Shanghai-based manufacturer released a brief look at the N1 (also known as the Nexus-01) performing a quick “Kung Fu Show.” And while it’s unlikely to win any actual martial…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

Sarah Rainsford, Eastern and Southern Europe correspondentIn Chisinau andPaul KirbyEurope digital editor in LondonAnadolu via Getty ImagesMoldovan President Maia Sandu warned voters their democracy was young and fragile and Russia endangered itThe pro-European party of Moldovan President Maia Sandu is heading for victory and a majority in parliament in elections seen as critical for her country’s future path to the EU.Sandu, who had warned of “massive Russian interference” after voting on Sunday, said the future of her country, flanked by Ukraine and Romania, was at stake.With 95% of the 1.6m votes counted, Sandu’s Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) was…

The gold standard is a profile in power. So LBJ conspired to get rid of it. (Photo by UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)Getty ImagesThe gold standard did not prevent the hyperinflation of the 1970s, or the slowdown in growth the American economy in the 2000s. The gold standard ended in 1971—what can it mean that it failed to prevent ill outcomes after it settled on the ash heap of history?It is a common argument among Bitcoiners. If gold had fully succeeded, it would have prevented its demise. The very departure of gold from the global monetary system—at the hands, to be sure,…

By A.O. Scott A.O. Scott, a critic at large for the Book Review, recorded the poetry readings that appear in this piece. Sept. 28, 2025 Forget about apples and oranges — nothing rhymes with orange anyway. Never mind those plums that William Carlos Williams sneaked from the icebox. The most poetic fruit of all is the blackberry.Not the mushy sugar bombs packed into plastic clamshells at the supermarket. Those are insipid, bland, prosaic. I mean the ragged, spicy volunteers that grow untended at the edge of a meadow or the side of a road. The kind you go out and…

NEWCASTLE, England — Anything Liverpool can do, Arsenal can do just as well, and Mikel Arteta’s players now have the evidence to prove it after a 2-1 stoppage-time victory away to Newcastle United answered so many questions about the Gunners’ ability to win the Premier League title.Could Arsenal take advantage of Liverpool’s defeat at Crystal Palace on Saturday? Could they overcome the physical challenge of facing Eddie Howe’s muscular and direct team at St James’ Park, and could they deal with the adversity of falling behind against a side with a recent winning record against them?The answer to all three…