Culture
The entertainment and cultural moments that define our society.
The internet hates Botox and fillers — but only when they don’t look good.
The future of the internet is a slop-filled infinite scroll. How do we reclaim our attention?
Is there a literacy crisis? Or am I just old?
Christian Horner was fired after a year of bad performance, following allegations of sexual harassment.
Trump officials say there’s no deeper Epstein conspiracy they can reveal. The right has reacted with fury.
From Alex Warren to Jelly Roll, a new wave of faith-adjacent pop is finding God in laundromats and dive bars.
July Fourth isn’t as simple as celebrating the red, white, and blue.
It’s okay to hate AI’s encroachment into work. Learn to use it anyway.
The Diddy trial ended in (mostly) a win for the music mogul. How did that happen?
What the Idaho student murder investigation tells us about how criminal justice should work.
Gen Z is embracing emotional distress — with a new name.
The invention of sleepaway camp, explained.
Your brain isn’t what it used to be.
How the internet came to hate “male-centered women.”
How the mysterious death of a Boston cop led to an intense trial, a media circus, and a referendum on policing.
Read was found not guilty of second-degree murder, but guilty of drunk driving. New legal counsel and evidence might explain why.
Learning to yap could solve the male loneliness epidemic
Muscles are a symbol of strength. So who’s allowed to be strong?
Now that’s what I call economic downturn!
With raw footage and late night audio, Baldoni’s team thinks they can absolve the actor-director in the court of public opinion.
Gen Z is reversing a major trend in religion.
What is “coercive control”?
Was Jeffrey Epstein really Donald Trump’s “closest friend”?
Getting hot for the summer isn’t cutting it anymore.
Men’s beauty standards are getting increasingly bizarre.
How millennials are freaking out about being halfway to death, when everyone’s broke and already in therapy.
An exhausting — if not exhaustive — timeline of J.K. Rowling’s transphobia.
The search giant’s midlife crisis is now your problem.
The new political divide splitting young Americans in half.
How women took over literary fiction.
From F1 influencers to Taylor Swift, WAGs are in a new golden age. So why do they feel so old-fashioned?
What wouldn’t Jesus do?
Now is a good time to think about tech training wheels.
The broligarchs share a favorite author, but they might be missing the point entirely.
Why are we mad at the football coach’s girlfriend?
Your favorite artist — plus 80,000 other people.
How hip-hop’s Dionysus rose to power, decade after decade.
Who is the new pope? What will the new pope do? And other questions, answered.
To defend democracy, the courts must rule in favor of a lawmaker who bullied a high school student.