10+ hour, 58+ min ago  (866+ words) What's it like to have millions of fans but struggle to make friends? For Punch, a 7-month-old macaque, fame and loneliness have collided, leaving the world watching as he clings to a stuffed orangutan toy from IKEA. Punch was abandoned…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (486+ words) In case you have missed the many articles on the topic, millennials are reaching middle age. The entire generation is now officially over 30, with the eldest turning 45 this year. As a result, I predict a tidal wave of new novels…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (278+ words) More and more, it seems, I pull to refresh a feed or open up a new browser tab and encounter something that makes me feel as if I've sustained a head injury. Recently, the culprit has often been the federal…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (397+ words) Many of the snazziest decorations in the animal kingdom are charm offensives, put on by creatures trying to mate. While some of these adornments, like a peacock's tail feathers or a moose's antlers, are obvious even to humans, others can…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (619+ words) In my family, Sunday was always family dinner night. Whether the Packers earned another triumphant win, a swim meet went late, or a last-minute homework assignment loomed on Monday morning, that time to eat and enjoy each other's company was…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (361+ words) For all the haters who said Barack Obama doesn't curate his end-of-the-year playlists, the former president has once again dropped his annual list of favorites. Complaints that Obama was having an intern create his playlists first swirled in 2023. But think…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (296+ words) Former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's media company Higher Ground has acquired Sam Fragoso's podcast "Talk Easy." As the weekly podcast enters its tenth year, Fragoso will bring his long-form interviews with filmmakers, comedians, politicians and actors to the…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (433+ words) Nick Fuentes isn't done beefing with Piers Morgan over his virginity. The far-right podcaster, 27, reignited his feud with the British pundit, 60, after they had a two-hour-long sparring match on Piers Morgan Uncensored earlier this week over his long history of…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1516+ words) Open the internet today, and you'll find entire worlds most of us never encounter. Spaces built around practices so strange, so hyper-specific, they read like satire at first glance." Few writers have explored this frontier more vividly than Daniel Kolitz....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (574+ words) Right now, millions of high school seniors are finalizing their college applications and anticipating where they'll spend the next four years studying and sleeping on bunk beds. If the most hashtagged universities on TikTok are any indication, a lot of…...