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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

What rewatching old shows teaches us about ourselves

By Allie Volpe February 20

A retro hobby for the end times

By Anna North February 20

Prestige TV can’t beat the experience of playing Last of Us

By Mac Schwerin February 19

Can more Harry Potter ever be okay?

By Aja Romano February 16

Quantumania’s post-credits scene gives us Marvel’s next big bad

By Alex Abad-Santos February 16

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The Last of Us: What you need to know about the show and game

By Gabriela Fernandez February 15

The best movie you didn’t see last year is finally out

By Alissa Wilkinson February 15

How the Harry Potter video game became an ethical minefield

By Rebecca Jennings February 15

Rihanna is the pregnancy role model America needs right now

By Anna North February 14

What you learn about beauty and grief as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By Constance Grady February 14

The nonchalant spectacle of Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show

By Alex Abad-Santos February 12

Pedro Pascal and the unbearable horniness of “daddy”

By Alex Abad-Santos February 10

What the hard-won HarperCollins union contract means for the future of books

By Constance Grady February 10

What Magic Mike’s Last Dance gets right (and wrong) about female desire

By Meredith Haggerty February 10

The case for better-seats-cost-more movie tickets

By Peter Kafka February 10

Breaking down Pathaan, the most popular movie in the world

By Swati Sharma February 10

Last year’s Super Bowl ads aged like milk

By Sara Morrison February 9

What to watch this winter when there’s nothing to watch

By Gabriela Fernandez, Allie Volpe, and 6 more February 7

Can you get bird flu?

By Keren Landman and Benji Jones February 6

What an abortion hotline reveals about reproductive care after Roe

By Marin Cogan and Victoria Chamberlin February 6

Why Pamela, a Love Story works where Pam and Tommy failed

By Constance Grady February 5

Why Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti is such a big deal

By Izzie Ramirez February 4

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

Why we loved Everything Everywhere All at Once — and why we hope it wins the Oscar

By Alissa Wilkinson, Aja Romano, and 2 more February 4

The mounting, undeniable Me Too backlash

By Constance Grady February 3

Inside the lonely and surprisingly earnest world of political TikTok

By Christian Paz February 3

How Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin rewrote the book’s ending for a big twist

By Alex Abad-Santos February 2

TikTok’s master plan to win over Washington

By Sara Morrison February 2

Behind the scenes at TikTok as it campaigns to change Americans’ hearts and minds

By Shirin Ghaffary February 2

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

What Andrea Riseborough’s controversial nomination reveals about the Oscars

By Alissa Wilkinson February 2

Alec Baldwin’s criminal charges and Rust’s chaotic production, explained

By Aja Romano January 31

17 movies to watch out for in 2023

By Alissa Wilkinson January 31

We can’t grieve what we can’t remember

By Alissa Wilkinson January 31

Vintage Contemporaries is a warm-hearted novel that walks in the footsteps of Laurie Colwin

By Constance Grady January 31

The Good Morning America anchors who made us love cheating scandals exit ABC

By Aja Romano January 30

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

How Avatar: The Way of Water can make $2 billion and still feel irrelevant

By Alex Abad-Santos January 30

Past Lives is already one of the year’s best films

By Alissa Wilkinson January 25