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May 22, 2025Etched on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty is Emma Lazarus’s 1883 poem “The New Colossus”: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled...
April 28, 2025One of the most trenchant lines from the 2004 film Mean Girls is spoken not by any of the girls but by one of their adult male teachers. “Don’t have sex because you will...
April 21, 2025One of comedy’s greatest stock characters is the guy who’s his own worst enemy. You know the type: Kramer from Seinfeld; Michael Scott from The Office; the...
March 5, 2025Hollywood has always loved a hooker, so long as she has a heart of gold. The history of prostitutes in film is one in which the prostitute’s depth of character is portrayed as...
February 20, 2025It was just last spring when a viral video of a bouncing, scantily clad Sydney Sweeney was heralded by the Right-wing internet as an early harbinger of the coming vibe shift....
February 18, 2025A young woman, dressed in a medical gown and with twin smears of tear-smudged mascara under each eye, is gasping and sobbing, trying to describe the pain that is radiating inside her...
February 12, 2025Late last week, Elon Musk announced that the initiative he’s heading up, the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, would rehire Marko Elez, the 25-year-old staffer who...
February 4, 2025Is the MAGA babe calendar what Making America Hot Again looks like?
January 20, 2025As she faces the camera, Ruby Franke lowers her voice to a whisper. It’s as if you were there in the room with her, as if she were leaning in close to tell you her deepest,...
January 13, 2025The first time you meet Romy, you hear her before you see her, moaning in ecstasy as she sits astride her naked husband. The camera pans over her strawberry-blonde hair, her smooth...
January 8, 2025The first thing I said to my mother-in-law as we arrived at her home for Christmas—after “hi” and “how are you”—was this: “Oh my god, did...- January 3, 2025The first thing I said to my mother-in-law as we arrived at her home for Christmas—after “hi” and “how are you”—was this: “Oh my god, did...
