Tech entrepreneur-turned-universal-basic-income-adherent Andrew Yang was never going to win the 2020 presidential election. But Yang's quixotic run for the Democratic nomination managed to vault the political newbie into prime position to become the…

In the last few years, Evan Rachel Wood has become a trailblazing domestic violence activist. In 2019, she spearheaded legislation to extend California’s statute of limitations for how long victims have to press charges against an abuser. Gov. Gavin…

It was never a question of if, but Hollywood has still moved at startling velocity to get the Reddit Wall Street debacle adapted for the big screen. Just one week after millions of investors teamed up through r/WallStreetBets to drive up the price…

It looks like New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's much-memed coronavirus management has led to a mass exodus among his state's top health officials. According to a new report from the New York Times, at least nine high ranking health officials have…

With a new president comes a new administration. There have been rumors about who President Biden might choose for his Cabinet picks for months, but he's finally been able to start bringing people in in his first week-plus in office. Last week,…

When I think about my childhood, I often wonder about the teenage experience I see in movies and TV: self-conscious yet carefree 16-year-olds pondering their budding identities and exploring relationships. It seems carefree, fun, and sometimes…

Editor’s note: Varghese Mathai is a physicist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who studies the flow of fluids and gases. He conducted a study using computational fluid dynamics simulations to understand how air flows inside a car and its…

Okay, I’m not going to predict in a public forum that this year will be any better than the one that came before it. In just one long month, we’ve had numerous indications of the crass stupidity and brutality continuing unabated. But there are also…

You've really gotta hand it to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the sheer, uncut, rocket-grade hubris it takes to publish a book touting his "leadership lessons" from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, even as each successive episode in New York…

Last year, 102 million viewers tuned in to watch J.Lo and Shakira headline the Super Bowl halftime show. This year’s star, pop singer and body-mod enthusiast the Weeknd, is intent on making sure all those millions of stuck-at-home Americans get a…

Just two weeks ago, 22-year-old Andrei Doroshin, a Drexel University grad student and entrepreneur, was being touted in the national media for the work Philly Fighting COVID — his for-profit organization — had done to "[create] a system that will…

Everyone has some troubling impetus that gets them to join Twitter for the first time — I think mine was a failed concert ticket giveaway. For Jon Stewart, who had steered clear of the platform for more than a decade, it was the GameStop-Reddit…

Here’s a word salad that’d never make sense outside of 2021: AOC did a Twitch stream about GameStop stonks on Thursday night. The beginning of the livestream was plagued with technical issues ("This is an ASMR channel now," the Congresswoman joked,…

I can't believe I have to write these words but: No, one of the oldest banking institutions on Earth does not control an orbital death ray, and no, they did not use it to ignite California's deadly Camp Fire in 2018. I have to write these…

While much of the world is still a frightening virus-infested place, there is evidently a light at the end of the tunnel. Several lights, actually, in the form of vaccines that companies are racing to produce. Today, there are ubiquitous headlines…

Though there are silver linings to the cloud that 2020’s trash fire left us with, last year took a toll on many of us. One of the bigger issues that came to light was institutionalized racism. And while the devaluing of Black lives is a 24-hour-day,…

For the last couple of weeks, a collection of Redditors organizing themselves in the r/WallStreetBets community have been squeezing hedge funds for all they’re worth by using the tools of the stock market against them. The effort has sent…

Was it the eyebrow waggle at Mike Pence that did it? Quite possibly! After stealing the show with her playful expression and bejeweled Miu Miu coat at the presidential inauguration, Ella Emhoff, the 21-year-old stepdaughter of Vice President Kamala…

Despite every effort to divorce celebrities from the pandemic zeitgeist, they’ve been right there through it all. Tom Hanks Night will live in infamy as the moment when the coronavirus' severity set in for much of the country, and the “Imagine”…

Imagine being actress Carey Mulligan and having some man opine that while you’re talented, he’d rather watch Margot Robbie seduce and shame would-be rapists in your latest film. The darkly comedic revenge movie Promising Young Woman stars Mulligan…

How long the country wrestles with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic will be directly tied to the actions the government takes right now. Among those actions is a call for a direct cash payment. Americans got their first stimulus…

We know that the planet is warming as a result of human-caused climate change, and it feels like each passing month and year sets a new record for being the hottest in recorded history. These aren't just anomalies or sudden blips on the radar. A new…

I have been a vegetarian since I was 14 years old. These days I consider myself to be an only vegan-ish, but still a pretty hardline proponent of animal rights. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was one of my first activist…

After the summer of widespread protests against racial injustice, the broader Disney empire has worked overtime to paper over its most glaring racist stereotypes in old animation. The most long-awaited change came to Disney World’s Splash Mountain…

Now that President Joe Biden is inaugurated, the United States is looking to him to boost vaccine rollouts throughout the country. Namely, people are hoping he'll follow through on promises to vaccinate 100 million people in his first 100 days in…

In the days after former President Donald Trump refused to condemn the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who marched through Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, one of the Trump administration's lesser-publicized evils began garnering an added layer…

On Wednesday evening, the city of Austin, Texas, voted to spend nearly $7 million to purchase a local hotel, which it intends to transform into a permanent transitional home for city residents experiencing homelessness. The unanimous decision from…

Executive orders are a central part of any presidential administration's policy agenda. They're a tool with great power, yet are often misunderstood. President Barack Obama used executive orders to get around a Congress dedicated to undermining his…

In the wellness world, CBD — short for cannabidiol, the non-inebriating compound in cannabis — has emerged as something of a panacea. If you struggle with anxiety, insomnia, pain, even skin issues, brands and proponents tell us, CBD will supposedly…

All this time at home isn’t doing our bodies any favors. Sitting at our desks for hours on end, likely with fewer outlets for physical activity than usual, has turned us into sore, stiff shells of our pre-pandemic selves. It’s no wonder I've been…