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Dec 5, 2025
In 2011, the online lifestyle magazine xoJane launched a much-lauded — and, later, much-parodied — personal essay series called “It Happened to Me”. The...
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Aug 15, 2025
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Aug 1, 2025
Gwyneth Paltrow is not much for confrontation, which is to say, if she doesn’t like you, she probably won’t tell you to your face. Instead, her signature move is as...
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Jul 31, 2025
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Jul 21, 2025
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For decades, if not centuries, there are certain questions to which we have returned again and again—questions which illuminate the mysteries of human existence and threaten to...
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In 2020, my husband and I bought a house. It’s our first house, and also hopefully our last: a little Queen Anne Victorian with two bedrooms, gorgeous light, and absolutely no...
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Jun 20, 2025
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May 22, 2025
Etched 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...
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One 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...
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Apr 21, 2025
One 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...
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Mar 5, 2025
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The history of prostitutes in film is one in which the prostitute’s depth of character is portrayed as...
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Feb 20, 2025
It 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....
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Feb 18, 2025
A 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...
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Feb 12, 2025
Late 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...
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Feb 4, 2025
Is the MAGA babe calendar what Making America Hot Again looks like?
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Jan 20, 2025
As 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,...
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Jan 13, 2025
The 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...
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Jan 8, 2025
The 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...
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Jan 3, 2025
The 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...
Dec 5, 2025In 2011, the online lifestyle magazine xoJane launched a much-lauded — and, later, much-parodied — personal essay series called “It Happened to Me”. The...
Aug 15, 2025Gather round the campfire, children, and let me tell you a scary story about the annual ritual humiliation known as the Presidential Fitness Test.
Aug 1, 2025Gwyneth Paltrow is not much for confrontation, which is to say, if she doesn’t like you, she probably won’t tell you to your face. Instead, her signature move is as...
Jul 31, 2025The most controversial ad of 2025 begins with actress Sydney Sweeney, wearing a denim jacket and with her blonde hair tumbling loose over her shoulders. She’s gazing directly...
Jul 21, 2025To truly appreciate the rich cultural symbolism of 28 Years Later, the zombie-apocalypse-plague movie whose characters are currently projectile-vomiting blood in a theater near...
Jul 8, 2025For decades, if not centuries, there are certain questions to which we have returned again and again—questions which illuminate the mysteries of human existence and threaten to...
Jun 23, 2025In 2020, my husband and I bought a house. It’s our first house, and also hopefully our last: a little Queen Anne Victorian with two bedrooms, gorgeous light, and absolutely no...
Jun 20, 2025Oh, that awkward moment where you break your engagement with the man you love, because he’s sadly possessed of neither good fortune nor the social position to make...
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...
Apr 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...
Apr 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...
Mar 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...
Feb 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....
Feb 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...
Feb 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...
Feb 4, 2025Is the MAGA babe calendar what Making America Hot Again looks like?
Jan 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,...
Jan 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...
Jan 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...