Culture

This month, we’re reading about the complexities of love—particularly queer love—in environments that are hostile to it, from war-torn El Salvador to modern-day Lagos. Archive of Unknown Universes: A Novel...

When Winston Churchill popularized the phrase “special relationship” to describe the strong bond between the United States and the United Kingdom, I wonder if he could have predicted the new...

The strangest thing has happened to the Jurassic Park films over the past 32 years. In the original movie, directed by Steven Spielberg, the characters were mesmerized by dinosaurs. They...

Have you checked out the Apple App Store lately? There’s a new number one on the leaderboard under the free social media app list. Developer, Joshua Aaron, says the ICEBlock...

Hot off the heels of their extremely public breakup that so many of us saw coming from a mile away, from the second Elon hitched his wagon to Trump’s rage...

A new study has found that a quarter of Americans are too financially stressed to have sex. Well, unlike the people behind these stats, that blows. The recent ZipHealth survey...

Though he flirted with the idea of joining the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL, Deion Sanders ultimately decided to stay in college, agreeing to a five-year, $54 million contract extension...

Just after 10 p.m. on primary day in New York City last week, loud applause erupted spontaneously out of d.b.a., the dog-friendly dive-pub on First Avenue. Young people spilled out...

At first glance, Çatalhöyük looks like any other archaeological marvel. Tightly packed homes. No roads. No temples. Just walls, bones, and the occasional fertility figurine. But new DNA evidence from...

ChatGPT’s most advanced models recently served me a surprising statistic: US productivity grew faster in 2024 than in any year since the 1960s. Half that jump can be linked to...