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Matthew Cantor

Matthew Cantor is a features subeditor/writer for Guardian US in Los Angeles

July 2024

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    The secret to living longer: join a club

    The documentary Join or Die examines the decline of civic engagement in America – and how it has fueled a worsening national crisis

June 2024

  • screenshot of the clickhole website, with the site name at the top and pictures of chris pratt, a wig and ronald mcdonald

    Wow! This clickbait parody is still the funniest thing on the internet

  • illustration of person at table with ghostly outlines of a person pouring a drink for another person and two outlined people sitting on a red couch

    Virtual living rooms, adult ‘after-school clubs’ and AI lovers: my search for a fix to modern loneliness

May 2024

  • Kirsty Paterson poses as the sad Oompa Loompa at Willy's Chocolate Experience LA on 28 April 2024.

    ‘Yes, this is real’: LA recreates Glasgow’s Willy Wonka disaster – sad Oompa Loompa included

    The viral Glasgow event made children cry and adults seethe. Could a California tribute provide some measure of absolution?

April 2024

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    I live in an uninhabitable ‘boy room’ – can a comedian save me from myself?

    Rachel Coster’s TikTok show, which documents the extremely messy dwelling spaces of New York’s young men, has clearly struck a nerve
  • Street art mural honoring Flaco, an Eurasian Eagle-Owl, in New York's Freemans Alley<br>A spray-painted mural of Flaco, an Eurasian Eagle-Owl who died just over a year after his escape from a vandalized Central Park Zoo enclosure, by Colombian artist Calicho Arevalo, is seen in the street art destination of Freemans Alley in New York City, U.S. February 25, 2024. REUTERS/Bing Guan NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

    ‘We all connected over Flaco’: artists turn beloved animals into symbols of their US cities

    The biggest cities in the US are mourning animals who fostered a rare sense of connection. Art is preserving their legacies
  • Scott and Theresa Richardson high res

    The confidence question
    He voted Trump in 2016, Biden in 2020. He’s the kind of voter candidates are desperate to swing

    Small business owner Scott Richardson chose Trump to shake things up but a strong economy means he’s sticking with Biden

March 2024

  • Close-up of colorful jalapeno peppers freshly harvested from the garden ready for market

    Iced spice: are jalapeños really losing their heat?

  • The shoulder of an olive-green uniform showing a round patch with the words "US Border Patrol" in yellow thread on a blue background.

    The anti-immigrant slur US border patrol tried to ban: ‘It reflects sanctioned violence’

February 2024

  • A calendar shows the month of February, including leap day, Feb. 29, on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

    Do you get paid extra for working on Leap Day?

  • Close-up of three camera lenses on a phone under blue tint

    Stop putting your wet iPhone in rice, says Apple. Here’s what to do instead

  • Man with beard wearing suit and red tie with a microphone in front of him.

    Hospitalized lawmakers showing up for last-minute votes? Not as rare as you’d think

  • Man with curly hair, wearing suit with microphone in front of him; woman with hair up, wearing white earrings and strapless black dress; woman with long hair wearing white dress.

    ‘Cursive singing’ is inescapable – but is it any goyidd?

January 2024

  • a side-by-side image of Morrissey, Donald Trump, and Johnny Marr

    ‘Please let me get what I want’: can artists stop politicians from using their songs?

  • An empty hospital bed

    ‘This should not be ridiculed’: the link between hypochondria and early death

December 2023

  • two women on a bench with green trees behind them

    The biting feminist satire of Reductress: ‘Comedy shows what we know deep down to be true’

    Staff are younger, and topics range from the climate crisis to #MeToo. After a decade, the magazine is as sharp as ever
  • painting of a woman pouring milk, with modern cereals superimposed on it

    The weird but true history of cereal - from anti-sex campaigns to mind control

    Breakfast has never looked back since a doctor from upstate New York poured milk over processed grains in 1863
  • OpenAI web site opened on computer. OpenAI is the company behind the artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT and the best model for generating digital fine art and photorealistic images - DALL E. Photo: Davor Puklavec/PIXSELL<br>2MW8KMB OpenAI web site opened on computer. OpenAI is the company behind the artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT and the best model for generating digital fine art and photorealistic images - DALL E. Photo: Davor Puklavec/PIXSELL

    Hallucinate, AI, authenticity: dictionaries’ words of the year make our biggest fears clear

    In a world of chatbots and influencers, Merriam-Webster, Cambridge and Collins are in rare agreement

November 2023

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    Anti-loneliness club offers friendship for $200 a month – and thousands have signed up

    California’s Groundfloor club targets the isolation epidemic with an ‘after-school club’ for the post-30 set

October 2023

  • A South Asian man wearing a tuxedo gestures while speaking at mic, with a multicolored bouquet blurry in the foreground.

    ‘I’m not a psycho’: Hasan Minhaj responds to New Yorker claims he told false stories

    In a 20-minute video, the comedian disputes the magazine’s suggestion that he went too far in exaggerating his experiences
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