Culture

During Election Night, as MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki manically bopped around in front of a heat map, tens of millions of Americans clenched their fists and collectively tried not to stroke out from anxiety. The antidote to that: a 22-minute YouTube video of a woman pretending to brush your hair. “I …

Since May 2020, youth organizers across the country have been mobilizing against police brutality and working for systemic change in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. Some of them had organized for social justice before, but many of them took to the streets for the first time and without an …

Last summer, Howie Mandel’s son gave him some instructions: Turn around and clap. Film it. Put it on TikTok. The result was a viral meme that came and went as quickly as any other viral memes on TikTok, but for Mandel, it was enough to get millions of hits in …

Keira Knightley calls for action in the urgent, animated explainer Climate Crisis, and Why We Should Panic. Translated into 14 different languages, the short features Knightley describing what’s causing climate change, and why governments need to enter crisis mode before it’s too late.“Our children will grow up in this devastated …

In the latest episode of their Thinking Beer video series, hosts Max Bakker and Ryan Daley discuss the “complete summer beer experience” with Elysian Brewing co-founder Joe Bisacca and Jerry Portwood, Rolling Stone‘s digital director. The two brands launched their Elysian Rolling Stone Lager earlier in the spring, and this …

In 2016, famed crime novelist James Patterson and co-authors Tim Malloy and John Connolly published Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him, and All the Justice that Money Can Buy: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein. Patterson had heard about the story of the mysterious …

Update, Tuesday, June 23rd: NASCAR announced that the FBI had concluded its investigation, and found no evidence that a hate crime had been committed. The rope tied into a noose had reportedly been hanging on the door of the garage since last fall, per ESPN.The FBI said no charges would …

When Isabelle was in her junior year of high school at Catlin Gabel, an elite private day school in Portland, Oregon, sports were her life. “It was the thing that kept me happy, and it was a huge goal of mine to keep it going moving forward in my life,” …

Shortly after thousands of protesters nearly booed New York Mayor Bill De Blasio off the stage, Terrence Floyd addressed the crowd at Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza Park on Thursday afternoon to honor his late brother George. Terrence teared up for several minutes before he spoke, gathering himself as protesters chanted, “You …

For the second year in a row, New York has abandoned legalizing marijuana— but that’s not stopping New Yorkers from smoking a lot of weed. A 2019 study found that 1.3 million New Yorkers reported using cannabis in the previous year, and consumption has spiked during the coronavirus pandemic. For …