Cornell University has been the subject of innumerable headlines this week, as an anonymous woman’s lawsuit against the university over her alleged 2024 rape prompted New York prosecutors to reopen th...

A roundup of links and culture for August 2026.

Journalist Bill Shaner looks behind the story of the smiley face—one filled with secrets you wouldn't guess from its happy veneer.

From war to routine speeches, people are making money on what will and won't happen in politics next on platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket.

Journalist Bill Shaner looks behind the story of the smiley face—one filled with secrets you wouldn't guess from its happy veneer.

Is the culture downstream from religion, or is religion downstream from the culture? This question feels increasingly difficult to answer as each year passes since I left Christian fundamentalism. The...

Carnivore diets, Liver Kings, protein bars. What if our food didn't define our masculinity? Let's go inside the meatosphere.

The Comstock Act nearly toppled Playboy in the '50s, and now the same anti-obscenity law is back to target abortion.

Three doctors grade RFK Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again agenda, and how he's impacted the country's health so far.

Old Playboy Forum letters reveal the truth about life before Roe v. Wade—one many Americans are reliving today.

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Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.

Lateral reading involves leaving the website to figure out its legitimacy.

Frequent exposure to social media misinformation can make it even more difficult to discern what’s real and what’s fake online.

If you've found it tough to watch, it may be that the cast's desire for "traditional" values reflects of our winnowing rights.

Efforts to cure autism are built on the false idea that there is something inherently wrong with us.

Efforts to cure autism are built on the false idea that there is something inherently wrong with us.

"Police generally aren’t trained or qualified to respond to mental health crises."

“Questioning whether an out lesbian might some day return to heteronormativity enforces long-held lesbophobic ideas.”

“What if I think I’m going to have all these opportunities… and my life is going to be beautiful, but [it’s not] because of everything that’s still happened?"

"At home and abroad, the U.S. government is participating in starving people, particularly children, and calling it policy."

The lure of simplicity is understandable, but it's really a tool to spread Christian Nationalism.

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The biggest red flag is that the Tea app seems to be an attempt to quick-fix on an individual level what is a structural problem — that is, misogyny — via surveillance culture.

If you take a supplement, you should read this.

If you take a supplement, you should read this.

And one-third use them for social interaction.

Young people, experts and estranged creators alike agree that going “no contact” does not mean “no community.” Here’s where they’re finding it instead.

Disillusioned with societal structures, these young people are building their utopia from the ground up.

Disillusioned with societal structures, these young people are building their utopia from the ground up.

Disillusioned with societal structures, these young people are building their utopia from the ground up.

We talked to doctors to find out how it might impact your care.

We talked to doctors to find out how it might impact your care.

Journalists must find new ways to talk about false information.

“Diet culture is much like the mythological hydra; when you cut one head off of this beast, two more grow in its place.”