Kanye West’s antisemitic spiral, explained
Editor’s note, February 7, 2025, 12:30 pm: On February 7, Kanye referred to himself openly as a Nazi in a ...
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Will Kendrick Lamar perform “Not Like Us?” — and other questions about his Super Bowl halftime show
2025 might already be Kendrick Lamar’s year. It’s a familiar story for the Pulitzer-Prize winning rapper, who’s received dozens of ...
The disturbing tweets blowing up Emilia Pérez’s Oscars campaign
Since its arrival on Netflix in December, the Spanish-language French film Emilia Pérez has been a nesting doll of controversies. ...
The salty, briny, lemony, garlicky rise of “pick me” foods
It was September 2023, and a certain sweatshirt wouldn’t leave me alone. It was heather gray with a grid of ...
It’s not conspiratorial to be worried about social media’s rightward swing
Many Instagram users this week had their scrolling interrupted by the bearded visage of our newly elected Vice President JD ...
Timothée Chalamet goes bro
Timothée Chalamet scored the second Oscar nomination of his young career this week, and he’s a favorite to take home ...
The bright side of TikTok’s downfall
The TikTok ban seems imminent. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that would spell the end of TikTok ...
What Megyn Kelly gets right — and wrong — about Conclave
Megyn Kelly is impressive when you consider that she’s been able to create an entire career just from being mad ...
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 ...
Has TikTok made us better? Or much, much worse?
For years, murmurs of a US TikTok ban have left users and creators furious and terrified that a social media ...
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