Once upon a time in the early 2000s, when I was very young and more impressionable than I realized at the time, every single fucking teen movie was about An Ugly (Glasses-Wearing) Girl Who Is Finally ...

When you’re going through the biggest breakup of your life, it’s natural to seek advice from one of the great rom-com screenwriters of all time. I have just left Brad, and I am reading Nora Ephron. I...

Ilana Masad and Samantha Paige Rosen talk about new ways to live

Part III of Kate Wagner’s series on Fascist Aesthetics

After an extremely difficult week, you are exhausted and desperate enough to explore a form of self-care beyond your usual dirtbag method of doomscrolling on the toilet. You do some research, and book...

Late last year my father sent me a message asking if he could call and chat for a bit, which was unusual. Not that we don’t often speak; all my life, my dad and I have had a close-knit relationship, p...

a fiery writer-owned cooperative

a fiery writer-owned cooperative

Amy Chu meets a shepherd, et al.

A Quantitative Assessment into the Best and Worst Days of 2025 This study, “A Quantitative Assessment into the Best and Worst Day of 2025,” is the continuation of a previous study conducted by the Pr...

Jídé Salawu reflects on migration and African identities; Amy Chu does social science

a fiery writer-owned cooperative

Amy Chu on shopping at Daily Table

The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.

a collective of 60 writers, on fire and hard to kill

Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said. According to the UN humanitarian affairs office (Ocha), the Palestinian Red Crescent and civil defence workers were on a mission to rescue colleagues who had been shot at earlier in the day, when their clearly marked vehicles came under heavy Israeli fire in Rafah city’s Tel al-Sultan. A Red Crescent official in Gaza said that there was evidence of at least one person being detained and killed, as the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied. Continue reading...

A Tufts University student named Rumeysa Ozturk was disappeared off the streets of Somerville, MA yesterday for the crime of co-writing an extremely tame op-ed last year asking her school to divest fr...

so I try stand up comedy.

a collective of 60 writers, on fire and hard to kill

Miles Klee with a rare gospel, and Amy Chu on bodily imperatives

Drive change that uplifts the American people.

Supporting transnational worker organizing should be at the center of the fight for “ethical AI.”

YouTube video by The Economist

Parker Molloy tells the truth, and so does Luke O’Neil

a collective of 60 writers, on fire and hard to kill

The first in a series of stories about dating as a young adult and artist