Yolande Norris-Clark gazes placidly into the camera, speaking in her best ASMR voice, honey-colored bangs lying flat against her forehead as if stuck there by glue. She is, she says, with her five youngest children […]
An EMT Joined OnlyFans to Make Ends Meet. Then the ‘New York Post’ Shamed Her
OnlyFans has exploded in popularity during the pandemic. A content-subscription platform that allows influencers and content creators to monetize their content, OnlyFans is primarily used by sex workers, who post racy content on their feeds […]
Cleveland Indians to Drop Team Name
After over a century as the Cleveland Indians, the baseball team will finally change its controversial team name in the near future. The New York Times first reported that the team — which had first […]
Codebreakers Crack Zodiac Killer’s Unsolved 340-Character Cipher
The solution to one of the Zodiac Killer’s cipher, unsolved for 51 years, was cracked by a team of citizen codebreakers earlier this month, with the FBI confirming the decoded message’s authenticity. The “Z-340” message […]
The FDA Is Expected to Approve a Covid-19 Vaccine. Now What?
Today, December 11th — two days after the single deadliest day of the Covid-19 pandemic in the U.S. so far — the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to issue an emergency use authorization […]
Pornhub Upended the Porn Industry. Now New Changes Could Destroy Sex Workers’ Livelihoods
At the start of the pandemic, Alex and Cassie, a same-sex, nonbinary, multiracial couple based in Canada, were laid off from their full-time jobs. Scrambling for income, and unable to leave the house because of […]
Demanding Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
This story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico and is published here as part of an ongoing collaboration with Rolling Stone. Back in October, I was working on a production crew for a TV movie called […]
Science-Backed, Better Alternatives Can Improve Public Health
Campaigners called for us to develop better alternatives to continued smoking — and we have. Build better, do better, be better. As individuals or as a society, the path to progress is paved with continuous […]
‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’: A Brief History of the Holiday Song Controversy
Who doesn’t love a festive holiday tradition? The Christmas tree has been trimmed, stockings have been hung, the elf is sitting on his shelf and, once again, people are debating whether “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” […]
The Case for Macrodosing
This column is a collaboration with DoubleBlind, a print magazine and media company at the forefront of the psychedelic movement. Would you care for a drop of LSD in your morning tea? A capsule of psilocybin-mushroom […]
What Will the World Look Like in 30 Years? Sci-fi Author Kim Stanley Robinson Takes Us There
Who knew that in this dark hour of the climate crisis hope would arrive in the form of a 563-page novel by a sci-fi writer best known for a trilogy about establishing a human civilization […]
A TikTok Stripper Got 1.9 Million Followers With Her Wild Stories. But Are They True?
If you spend a lot of time on TikTok, then you’ve probably come across ItsImperial on your For You page. An 18-year-old with high cheekbones, a septum piercing, and intense, dark eyebrows, Imperial has racked […]