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The Waco tragedy, explained

By Tara Isabella Burton

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How Stephen Smith’s murder is connected to the Murdaugh family

By Aja Romano

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The case for Rick and Morty

By Sam Thielman

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The Broadway musical getting protested by neo-Nazis

By Constance Grady

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The rise of the TikTok scold

By Anna North

Season 4 of Succession is going to be a bloodbath

By Whizy Kim March 22

How BookTok makes money

By Constance Grady March 21

A bioethics professor weighs in on the Last of Us finale

By Oshan Jarow March 17

Time doesn’t have to be money

By Constance Grady March 17

Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ credits scene teases a future that might never come

By Alex Abad-Santos March 16

J.K. Rowling’s transphobia: A history

By Aja Romano March 16

America’s bad bet on expanding legal sports gambling

By Jack Meserve March 16

What YouTube hustle gurus are really selling you

By Rebecca Jennings March 15

Scream’s lasting legacy is its final girls

By Alex Abad-Santos March 14

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

5 winners and 4 losers from the 2023 Oscars

By Alex Abad-Santos, Aja Romano, and 2 more March 13

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Why Everything Everywhere All at Once won ... everything

By Alissa Wilkinson March 13

Why Top Gun’s sound design is Oscar-worthy

By Edward Vega March 10

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By Constance Grady November 16, 2021

The Vanderpump Rules cheating scandal, for people who have never watched the show

By Alex Abad-Santos March 8

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

A guide to this year’s Oscars.

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One year later, Chris Rock addresses the Will Smith Oscars slap

By Constance Grady March 7

The biting, witty melancholy of Nora Ephron’s Heartburn

By Constance Grady March 7

Changes at The Goods

By Julia Rubin March 6

The Delphi murders were a local tragedy. Then they became “true crime.”

By Aja Romano March 6

SNAP boosts kept millions out of poverty during Covid. Now they’re gone.

By Ellen Ioanes March 4

Hailey Bieber, Selena Gomez, and the Easter egg-ification of the Hollywood feud

By Alex Abad-Santos March 3

Alex Murdaugh sentenced to two life terms for murdering his wife and son

By Aja Romano March 3

Alex Murdaugh stands guilty of killing his wife and son. That’s just scratching the surface.

By Aja Romano March 3

Party Down’s new season says hustle culture is a scam

By Alissa Wilkinson March 2

America’s school lunch crisis

By Anna North March 2

How the Great Recession paved the way for influencers to inherit the earth

By Rebecca Jennings March 1

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

The surprising lesson from a century of Oscar scandals

By Alissa Wilkinson March 1

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

What’s the future of Black horror?

By Alissa Wilkinson February 28

Black teen girls are the curators of culture

By Ile-Ife Okantah February 28

The shadowy puzzle-box pleasures of Chinese spy thriller Hidden Blade

By Aja Romano February 28

Cars transformed America. They also made people more vulnerable to the police.

By Marin Cogan February 28

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

This is the most populist Oscars in a long time

By Alissa Wilkinson February 25

Netflix’s Perfect Match is a panopticon of sex and humiliation

By Alex Abad-Santos February 25

Marvel is in a rut

By Alex Abad-Santos February 24

R. Kelly has received his second jail sentence for sex crimes. Here are all the sexual misconduct allegations against him.

By Constance Grady February 23

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Why in the world do we hand out awards to adults?

By Emily Stewart February 23

Ordinary Black lives should be remembered, too

By Gabrielle Ione Hickmon February 22

What really happens if a bear does cocaine, explained by an ursinologist

By Alex Abad-Santos February 22

Social media used to be free. Not anymore.

By Shirin Ghaffary February 21

Brad Pitt was the only winner of the Aniston-Jolie tabloid battle

By Constance Grady February 21