TikTok: The most exciting, and controversial, social media app on the planet
TikTok has only been around in the US since August 2018, but it’s become the defining social media app of Gen Z. The app once known as Musical.ly was bought...
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The best way to make Skyrim more realistic? Rats
Since the release of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim in 2011, the game has inspired one of the largest and most active modding communities in the history of video games....
The Reason The Brutalist Needs to Be So Long
When the writer-director Brady Corbet accepted his second Golden Globe of the night for The Brutalist on Sunday, he uttered a nervy appeal straight down the camera lens: “Final-cut tiebreak...
Australia ‘poisoned me’ in 2022, Novak Djokovic says
Tennis legend Novak Djokovic claimed this week that he was “poisoned” amid his deportation saga in Australia during the Covid pandemic. Djokovic arrived in Melbourne in January 2022 to compete...
Onscreen age gaps have never been more pathetic
Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu is about so many things, but perhaps most urgently this: Never tell an old, ugly man you are interested in him because he’ll never leave you alone....
Elon Musk’s man in the European Parliament
In December 2024, Elon Musk posted a clip on X of a 24-year-old Cypriot lawmaker in the European Parliament arguing it was time to stop aiding Ukraine in its resistance...
‘The View’ co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin rolls eyes at Joy Behar during free speech fight
“The View” co-stars battled over the limits of free speech in a tense fight on Wednesday’s show. The ABC daytime talk show discussed Meta’s decision on Tuesday to end its...
An explosive Fox Sports lawsuit has turned into a salacious, sexist mess
Fox isn’t exactly known for fostering ethical work environments. However, a new lawsuit against Fox Sports, marquee commentator Skip Bayless, and network executive Charlie Dixon has sent shockwaves through the...
When Crisis Coverage Became Irresistible
In the film September 5, the ABC Sports studio at the 1972 Munich Olympics seems like an uncomfortable space in which to work, let alone think. The control room is...
The Global Right Is Fighting Against Real Families
Happy families are all different, but nationalists want them all to be alike. A coercive vision of the family as the bedrock of the nation—and of the nation as a...
