Saturday Night Live’s nostalgia is ruining the joke

Editor’s note, February 13: NBC is set to air “SNL50: The Anniversary Special” on Sunday, February 16 at 8 pm. This article about SNL’s 50th...

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The salty, briny, lemony, garlicky rise of “pick me” foods

It was September 2023, and a certain sweatshirt wouldn’t leave me alone. It was heather gray with a grid of 12 pickle jars on it, and it showed up...

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It’s not conspiratorial to be worried about social media’s rightward swing

Many Instagram users this week had their scrolling interrupted by the bearded visage of our newly elected Vice President JD Vance. Suddenly it seemed...

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Rebecca Jennings

Has TikTok made us better? Or much, much worse?

For years, murmurs of a US TikTok ban have left users and creators furious and terrified that a social media app that had become central to their...

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Rebecca Jennings

I can’t stop watching Mr. Beast’s new game show and I hate myself

The point of Beast Games is laid out with chilling starkness in the first 60 seconds of its premiere. A thousand people are competing for a $5...

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Rebecca Jennings

My descent into glow-up madness

Sometime last spring, I decided to glow up. This is an extremely embarrassing thing to admit, or at least it should be. But this is America. If...

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Rebecca Jennings

Christmas With the Kranks explains everything wrong with pop culture now

Something happens to me every December wherein movies and music that are objectively kind of bad suddenly become irresistible simply because they...

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Rebecca Jennings

Luigi Mangione and the blackpilling of America

In the days after a hooded gunman shot and killed United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in the middle of Manhattan, people on the internet endlessly...

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