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On a Thursday in mid-November, Kelli Eaves and Whitney Fang loaded up their van and set out across the country. Driving through the night, they left Dallas, Texas, for Brooklyn, New York. This wasn’t an average road trip, and that’s not just because we’re in the midst of a pandemic. …

The summer of 1993: there’s a new movie out called Dazed and Confused. But Hollywood doesn’t have high hopes. It’s a time capsule of a small Texas town, in the summer of 1976, set on the last day of school. The plot? Just high-school kids cruising in search of kicks, …

Jurnee Smollett detailed a harrowing encounter with the police in an exclusive clip fromQuestlove Supreme, Questlove’s interview podcast. As part of a longer conversation about personal experiences with police brutality, the star of Lovecraft Country described her and Questlove’s experience with getting pulled over by the police in the largely …

There are two different Paris Hiltons: the Gen Y Paris Hilton, and the Gen Z Paris Hilton. For Gen Y, the Hilton burnished in our minds is someone who is “famous for being famous,” a sloe-eyed, coltish heiress who does little more than pose for paparazzi photos and drunkenly stumble …

Since the start of the pandemic back in March, most companies have taken a tremendous financial hit — but that’s not so for OnlyFans. A subscription platform where creators sell content directly to fans that has, since its inception in 2016, primarily been used by sex workers, OnlyFans has seen …

Amidst weeks of unrest in Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has announced the creation of a “task force” to monitor protesters’ social media activity and prevent “looting,” NBC Chicago reports. The social media monitoring is part of a five-point strategy to combat unrest in Chicago, where more than 100 people were …

TikTok, which has recently played host to an explosion of QAnon-related content, has removed hashtags associated with the movement due to such content violating its guidelines. Searches for the hashtags #OutOfShadows, #FallCabal, and #QAnonTruth now yield zero results, as do searches for the hashtags #wwg1wga and #QAnon. As Rolling Stone …

Amid the national protests against police brutality and the deaths of so many black Americans, many crucial questions have been raised about the extent of policing powers. They have also questioned the validity of no-knock warrants, which had been issued and signed off by a judge the night a Louisville …

Magazine making is an intensely collaborative effort among writers, editors, researchers, designers, and photographers — yet in March, and now into April, we, like many Americans, were forced to work in isolation, communicating over phone, email, Slack and Zoom, as we adapt to this terrifying, temporary new global reality. As …

If you’ve ever read a Wikipedia description of a horror movie instead of actually watching that movie, you’re not alone — especially if that description kept you up all night, anyway. Reply All podcast hosts PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman have launched a new podcast for the horror-adverse, The Scaredy …