Barbie has long functioned as a proxy onto which cultural aspirations and anxieties about womanhood are projected.
As actors join screenwriters in a strike that has shut down movie productions, a labor historian looks back at union action…
In a study with people as young as 4 years old, participants underestimated how much others would appreciate their good…
New research shows that frequent posters appear needy, which pushes up against the expectation that ‘real men’ be stoic…
Immigrant chefs and cuisines are often constrained by Eurocentric definitions of what constitutes good food. As immigrant…
The government and some producers are pushing to industrialize the sugar cane-based spirit to boost its popularity around…
The US is home to more international migrants than any other country. But even though immigration is an actively debated…
Imagine an NBA game played outdoors in August, with no substitutions and players wearing snowsuits, gloves and ski masks.…
The organization – which offers its high school-age players a minimum salary of $100,000 – represents a new model for…
America’s veneration of gun ownership is seconded only by its commitment to rendering armed Blacks as an existential danger…
Visual artists draw from visual references, not words, as they imagine their work. So when language is in the driver’s…
Hint: It’s all tied up with the country’s history with British royalty.
In the last decade, some graffiti writers have moved from outlaw taggers to sought-after artists.
History is filled with stories of business magnates taking big financial risks on the next big sports sensation. But emerging…
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author was always willing to experiment with his prose, pacing and narration, crafting an oeuvre…
Intellectual property law wasn’t written with AI in mind, so it isn’t clear who owns the images that emerge from prompts…
Similar techniques used to identify criminals have been employed to unmask anonymous authors. But they aren’t foolproof.
Tombstones that used the honorifics ‘Mr.’ and ‘Mrs.’ restored a sense of dignity to people who had been denied it…
Though abortion is appearing in more plot lines, many programs still aren’t accurately depicting what the reality of abortion…
Hip-hop traveled far after being birthed by Black Americans in US cities. The journey hasn’t always been smooth.