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A look at what's happening in popular culture, online and otherwise. Expect health, wealth, art, dating, food and more. Plus, what's worth your time in movies and television, and occasionally books and music.
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Louis Theroux’s Pointless Manosphere Documentary
Plus: Why are right-wing trolls accusing each other of being trans?
River Page
Should a Woman Have Nine Children? Or None?
Plus: A fashion founder tells me not to try looking like Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. The sex politics of the AI elite. Lily Allen’s ex is in a show about…
Suzy Weiss
The Children Are Our Future and They Want to Be Chinese
Plus, why ‘The Traitors’ is the best show on TV, the gay tech mafia, Dunkin’ buckets, and more!
River Page
Can We Stop Trying to Cancel the ’00s?
Plus, why is the internet obsessed with Clavicular? New music from Lana Del Rey. And more!
River Page
‘Wuthering Heights’ Is Delightfully Perverted
Plus: The tech bros are quitting in droves. A new documentary about the Florida man next door. And more!
Suzy Weiss
The Winter Olympics Is the Best Reality TV Show
Plus: Why was everyone naked at the Grammys?
Suzy Weiss
The First Lady Really Doesn’t Care. Do U?
Plus: Kanye West apologizes again, climbing the tallest building in Taiwan, and ‘Bridgerton’ has a dirty conservative secret.
Suzy Weiss
The Post-Post-#MeToo Novel
Plus: The case for canceling your wedding. The Oscar noms. A saucy picture of the Boston Tea Party. And more!
Suzy Weiss
The Innocent Origins of Internet Brainrot
Plus: I love Kylie Jenner. “Soft partying” is in. Mattel has introduced a Barbie with autism. And more!
Sascha Seinfeld
The Renaissance of the Finance Bro
Plus, the gym trying to stay relevant, in defense of boredom, and Ashley Tisdale’s mommy drama.
Suzy Weiss
The Year the Celebrity Apology Died
Plus, pop stars came back, indie dramas flopped, and AI was everywhere.
Suzy Weiss
Harems Are Back
Plus: Everything that’s wrong with the new Avatar movie.
Suzy Weiss
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