Faulty reasoning signals

• Confirmation Bias - 1.7% (10 hits)
• Anchoring Bias - 1.4% (8 hits)
• Availability Heuristic - 1.2% (7 hits)
• Representativeness Heuristic - 2.1% (12 hits)
• Hindsight Bias - 0%
• Overconfidence Bias - 0%
• Framing Effect - 7% (40 hits)
• Loss Aversion - 1% (6 hits)
• Status Quo Bias - 0%
• Sunk Cost Effect - 0%
• Optimism Bias - 0%
• Pessimism Bias - 2.4% (14 hits)

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Cannonball with Wesley Morris

In Potato Salad We Trust

Wesley takes us into the streets of New York, then to food historian Jessica B.

Harris and finally to The Times’ Cooking Studio to make his family’s recipe and to find answers to this nagging question: Is potato salad the national dish?

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Food Stylist: Simon Andrews (potato salad); Kryssia Campos/Getty Images (tablecloth)

The Grit and Glamour of New York Movies

Our Tribeca Live Show with Cynthia Nixon.

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Spielberg Phones Home in ‘Disclosure Day’

Wesley Morris and the film curator, Eric Hynes, share thoughts on Steven Spielberg’s latest film, “Disclosure Day.”

Together, they consider the evolution of the filmmaker’s canon.

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What’s Love Got to Do With ‘Obsession’?

Wesley Morris and pop culture critic, Angelica Jade Bastién, discuss the hit horror movie “Obsession” and what it says about relationships today.

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Is Broadway Going Easy on Us?

Wesley Morris and The Times’s chief theater critic, Helen Shaw, compare notes on the 2025-26 Broadway season ahead of the Tony Awards.

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Over 20,000 Restaurants in New York City.

Only One List.

Our critics cherry-pick highlights from the “100 Best Restaurants” list.

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Is ‘Colbert’ the Wrong Late Show to Cancel?

Wesley Morris and Jason Zinoman, a Times critic at large, discuss “Saturday Night Live” and the state of late-night tv without “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

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The Devil Wears Prada, Workers Get Nada.

The sequel delivers, but stories about the working class are going out of style.

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We Defend Our ‘Greatest Songwriters’ List

Wesley Morris is joined by the “Popcast” hosts Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli and the Times Magazine editor Sasha Weiss to reflect on the making of the “Greatest Songwriters” list.

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‘Michael’ Is Pure Propaganda

The movie shows Michael Jackson as we wish he could have been.

But not as he was.

Video by Wesley Morris and Eric Hynes