Social media is an overwhelming part of our lives these days, but the Pew Research Center provided an in-depth look at just how much we rely on these platforms. In a 2025 report that looks at social ...

Wanting to be more social or outgoing sounds deceptively simple: Just talk to more people, say yes to every invite, and strike up friendly conversations with strangers, right? But for introverts, ...

Donald Trump is a one-in-a-million American president who has detonated long-recognized national standards. Each week brings fresh hell: He’s urged the U.S. military to launch war games in Democratic ...

In Trump’s latest stunt he sported a crown in a faked Truth Social video featuring him piloting a fighter jet to drop tons of shit on throngs of No Kings protesters. It was another appalling new low ...

As the government shutdown nears the two-week mark, several federal agencies, including the Social Security Administration (SSA), remain impacted by furloughs and cannot operate as usual. Thousands of ...

PEN America's report found 6,870 instances of book bans in 2024 and 2025. Books bans in public schools have become a "new normal" in the U.S., escalating since 2021, according to one advocacy group.

Aaron Sorkin directs the Sony film that stars Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong. By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter Sorkin directs The Social Reckoning from his own ...

In August 2023, Israel’s then-Energy Minister Israel Katz visited the synagogue at the Abrahamic Family House in the United Arab Emirates, a sign of warming ties between the two countries under the ...

Back in March, Facebook introduced a new feature that wasn’t exactly new. The Friends tab—described by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg as “a throwback to OG Facebook”—is a way for the app’s users to see only ...

Over the past two decades, social media has become an integral part of the adolescent experience. But this rising use is not without its consequences. From 2011 to 2021, there was a 50 percent ...

One of the not-funny ironies of the 21st century has been that everything we thought was social media is actually just mass media, except it’s terrible and broken. Luckily, journalists and creators ...