Emily Nussbaum

The rules governing everything from “Big Brother” to “The Real Housewives” started three decades ago, with a radical experiment on MTV.

Sweet, filthy, and forgiving, it’s a corrective to the authoritative, we-know-better tone of most historical nonfiction.

Rewatching “The Apprentice,” the show that made his Presidency possible.

The schism isn't between TV viewers who love a show and those who hate it—it’s between those who love it in very different ways.