If you’ve been on Instagram or TikTok lately, you’ve likely noticed a growing trend of A.I.-generated portraits of family, friends, and casual acquaintances. Sure, they may have sparked oohs and aahs ...

I can count Encanto among one of the few Disney movies that made me genuinely choke up. Set in gorgeous rural Colombia and imbued with magical realism, the movie was definitely a win for growing ...

Book banning is unfortunately a tale as old as the written word. Information that gives way to the expansion of ideas is a gift, but for that same reason, it can be seen as dangerous. The American ...

This story has spoilers for the Season 3 premiere of Atlanta. In the opening scene of the Season 3 premiere for FX’s Atlanta, a white man and a Black man sit in a boat on an unnamed lake, discussing ...

Plenty of our contemporary dating rituals are painfully drawn out. We spend weeks cautiously flirting on dating apps and months remaining in undefined gray areas, only for our egos to then make us ...

There are plenty of English words that might adequately describe the current state of U.S. politics: "sensational," perhaps, or unbelievable, or absurd. Instead, on its new magazine cover, the ...

President Trump would have you believe that the past several months of social justice protests against police violence and racial inequality represent a fundamentally violent threat that only he — ...

The "mannequin challenge," the new trend in which groups of people hold a statuesque pose, has gone viral. After a number of publications discovered the latest Twitter sensation last week, the ...

Trigger Warning: This piece contains descriptions and true accounts of self-harm. “This is for all my real friends out there,” said a girl with pastel pink hair on TikTok. She was sitting on the side ...

Conspiracy theories have a lot in common with multi-level marketing schemes, in the sense that all of the worst people you know from high school post about them on Facebook and try to get other people ...

In June 2020, amid nationwide protests against police brutality and systemic racism, Little Women star Florence Pugh took to Instagram to acknowledge her own past contributions to the problem — ...

There are few beverages as intriguing as absinthe. The alcohol — which was hugely popular in the late 19th century — was banned in the U.S. and much of Europe until relatively recently, and the "green ...