Calder McHugh is a technology and culture reporter at POLITICO Magazine. Charlie Kirk is sitting down, leaning forward and speaking into a microphone. “Counting or not counting gang violence,” he says ...

It’s a weird time to be a journalist. Digital news archives are disappearing. Generative AI is giving em dashes a bad name. Layoffs. Consolidations. Buyouts. Burnout. Countless, daily insults from the ...

The "67" meme gained viral traction across social media platforms due to its deliberate lack of meaning and context. Users began commenting the number without explanation, fostering curiosity and ...

The toy that’s sold out in America’s biggest retailers and just topped Amazon’s charts on the busiest shopping day of the year was made by a tech startup that had absolutely no clue how to make a toy.

2025 gave us the hero with a hero, bloated Vance, and who could forget the Coldplay couple? (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic) As the year comes to an end, I’m really at a loss for where to ...

The Pixar Era kicked off 30 years ago with the first installment of the popular franchise. It’s given us countless hits, but something has also been lost. By Maya Phillips There are so many ways of ...

From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot? Which implies, of course, that memes lack ...

TikTok users spent much of 2025 complaining that memes had slipped into pure nonsense. Consequently, a growing crowd is pushing for a full cultural refresh, dubbed the Great Meme Reset of 2026, set to ...

"Toy Story 5" rides like the wind into theaters on June 19, 2026. You've got a friend in them. Everyone's favorite toys are back in the first teaser trailer for "Toy Story 5." The clip, which was ...

May is National Masturbation Month, and we're celebrating with Feeling Yourself, a series exploring the finer points of self-pleasure. It's 2019, and people are finally starting to understand that it ...

If you haven’t heard by now, the Louvre—the world's busiest museum—was robbed last Sunday. But this wasn’t the stuff of an Ocean’s Eleven film or The Da Vinci Code, conducted in the middle of the ...