Cultural Commentary

A Tufts University student in a hijab, plucked off the street by masked agents. A greencard holder and former Columbia University protest organizer, arrested in front of his pregnant wife, awaiting possible deportation in an ICE detention in Louisiana. A 10-year resident of the U.S., on his way to a …

As I began mining the 80,000 pages of newly released, previously classified Kennedy assassination records, Jack Schlossberg, JFK’s only grandson, offered a piercing observation on X: “President Trump is obsessed with my grandfather — but not in his life or what he achieved in it. He’s only interested in his …

On Jan. 26, this year’s Dia de los Reyes celebration on Cherokee Street in St. Louis bustled with people happy for sunshine. After weeks of brutal snow, the event, put on by local Latino community organizers, featured taco tents and tables full of free coats, shoes, and blankets. Kids ran …

During his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — vaccine conspiracy theorist, former presidential candidate, and Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary — answered most questions about his past and his plans for the future by talking in circles about vaccines, Medicare, …

Mother Nature exploded in Los Angeles this month with the most damaging wildfires in the city’s, and likely the nation’s, history. We still don’t know the full extent of the devastation that is already massive with impacts felt across the city. When the fires subside, families in the Pacific Palisades, …

Earlier this week, YouTuber Josh Pieters dropped a 47-minute documentary that followed 23-year-old OnlyFans star Lily Phillips as she planned for and completed her goal of having sex with 100 men in 24 hours as a stunt for her OnlyFans page. While she is certainly not the first woman to …

After organizing the viral Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest in Washington Square Park, Anthony Po was slapped with a $500 fine for hosting a public event without a permit. But fear not! After the event, Po revealed that Chalamet’s team approached him to cover the fee. “They offered to pay the …

The time has come for a passing of the torch, and I couldn’t be more relieved: No longer must my viciously stereotyped age cohort — the so-called “millennials,” those born between the early Eighties and mid-Nineties — bear responsibility for the relentless flow of societal change. For while the 2010s …

If there’s one thing filmmaker Tim Miller knows how to do, it’s making cool-looking shit. As a director, he’s made action-heavy films like Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) and the first Deadpool (2016), a film that famously got made because of internet hype surrounding a leaked test reel (made by Miller). …

I’m not the only person mourning the results of the 2024 Presidential election, in which a majority of the U.S. chose a racist, homophobic, sexual abuser and felon to retake an office he already failed at once. The general vibe on Al Gore’s internet is one of reflection: How did …