I hadn't planned to make my first visit to Paris a comprehensive croissant research trip, it just happened. The catalyst was a croissant from Boulangerie Chevalier, a bakery in St. Germain that I ...

Trigger Warning: This piece contains descriptions and true accounts of self-harm. “This is for all my real friends out there,” said a girl with pastel pink hair on TikTok. She was sitting on ...

On Sunday, the Associated Press reported worker shortages have prompted some Alabama farmers who grow labor-intensive produce to plant less, rather than have crops rot in the fields again this ...

Boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) are big news in 2014. If Scarlett Johansson's Sodastream fiasco didn't grab your attention, perhaps the American Studies Association's boycott of Israeli ...

This trend is fascinating, in part because there's long been a taboo associated with people (particularly, women) choosing to opt out of parenthood. Women who choose not to have kids have been ...

A therapist explains how we can stop shrinking ourselves and start thriving.

Wednesday was a big day in LGBT history: New York City added the Stonewall Inn to its list of citywide landmarks. Members of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously decided ...

Beyoncé's visual album Lemonade sampled a few artists but one of the most striking, memorable samples came from the voice of civil rights leader Malcolm X. Lemonade is about the power and ...

The opening voiceover of Dirty Dancing sets the scene as a simpler, more peaceful time — a last gasp of innocence for both Frances “Baby” Houseman and for the country. “That was the summer ...

After Swift's 2018 "political awakening," things haven't gotten any better for the singer's non-white fans.

Vice has cut ties with a senior writer from its feminist vertical Broadly after a BuzzFeed report revealed that the writer pitched story ideas to then-Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos, and once ...

On Monday morning, TMZ released a damning video of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice's violent attack on his then-fiancée Janay Palmer in February. The brutal video showed Rice knocking ...