These online relationships are often just as meaningful and rich and strange as my “real-life” friendships, but they’re more difficult to define. Maybe we’re still a little embarrassed? Or maybe we just need to stop waiting for definitions and do the w…
there’s no mistaking it—we’ve got a glory hole on our hands
Those currently enthralled with Netflix’s hit competitive glass blowing show Blown Away may be justifiably curious about the presence on the program of “glory holes.” For most of the culture, this terms refers very specifically to a public, quasi-anony…
people with little power or authority at work or when acting as citizens
I want a prominent media home that reflects our size and heterogeneity. I want stories about wealth as opposed to income inequality and its effect on intergenerational and social mobility. I want stories that aren’t just about our problems, but that ar…
we’re not actually above anyone. we’re not smarter than this.
“Being a fat lady and trying to do all the things that fat ladies are supposed to do took me right there,” Ms. Gordon said. “I’ve been doing all the things, and it’s not really producing the result that I’ve been promised for, you know, the majority of…
the washy center between acerbic and ambrosial
Like denim jackets and air, apples are everywhere in autumn (and also year-round, but you get it). You can almost smell the “generic apple promotion” of National Apple Month (September!) in the increasingly chilly wind! It only makes sense to rank them…
the point at which there’s no more of you left to give
Tyla Grant, 24, holds down a full-time advertising job, is trying to get a nonprofit off the ground and creates regular content for her podcast, YouTube channel and Instagram. Occasionally, she winds up so fried she can’t speak or get out of bed for da…
a third reaction is possible: changing the frame of public health
Phthalates, a class of endocrine-disrupting chemicals, are widely known to be harmful to human health. Phthalates are very common in plastics, cosmetics, and apparently menstrual pads, because certain phthalates (there are many of them) can help a subs…