When someone trusts you enough to come out to you, it’s essential to choose the words you respond with carefully and thoughtfully. “Empathy is, in that moment, the most important...

Israel versus Palestine. Liberals versus conservatives.  The Mets versus the Yankees. Whichever we favor, we’ve come to believe that our unwavering, religious-like allegiance is not only normal and unavoidable, but...

Amid the escalating active conflict between Israel and Iran, the latter has delivered yet another directive to its residents, this time involving the popular messaging platform WhatsApp. Iran instructed its...

This summer I’ll step onstage to compete as a professional athlete for the first time—at 50. I’ll wear a fuchsia bikini small enough to fit in a Ziplock bag, pose...

Warning: This post contains major spoilers for We Were Liars. If you’ve ever scrolled through BookTok, you may have been served a video—or, perhaps several—about E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars....

The Israel-Iran war, which is now in its sixth day and has already killed hundreds in Iran and dozens in Israel, could soon enter a perilous new phase should the...

Content moderation, tech billionaire and self-proclaimed free speech “absolutist” Elon Musk told independent journalist Don Lemon in an interview on X last year that the X owner would go on...

The second season of America’s Sweethearts ends on a triumphant note for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. In the final 15 minutes of the Netflix documentary series’ new season, which airs...

There’s a sturdy formula at work in Joseph Kosinki’s hugely entertaining F1 The Movie, and it has nothing to do with the intricate Formula One racing regulations. The idea of...

In the days and months after the Supreme Court rendered a 2022 decision gutting the U.S. constitutional protection for abortion, advocates predicted many negative impacts to come for women and...