Politics

Prominent men like Marc Andreessen and Dana White are saying self-awareness is a waste of time. Research and history beg to differ.

As ICE continues its raids across America, some residents have transformed their daily exercise rituals into neighborhood watch groups.

Pass the ivermectin, because Mulaney's new bit about the “comedy-adjacent” Health and Human Services secretary is going viral.

The British monarch and New York mayor are riding different tailoring waves but still building.

Before 9/11, America’s Special Forces operators and Secret Service agents looked like Uzi-toting math teachers. Today, they’re muscled, bearded, black-clad, tactically outfitted door-kickers. How we got here reveals as much about US military adventurism as it does style.

The software company’s support for America’s war in Iran and ICE arrests here at home aren’t the only things they’ve been criticized for: Its most recent merch drop was called out for echoing the visual language of Virgil Abloh’s Off-White. But in 2026, Palantir plans to double down on apparel.

The Servis Cheetah gained notoriety as the high-tops of choice for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Now, the military surplus store Americana Pipedream can’t keep them on shelves.

Rob Rausch, Justin Bieber, a Supreme lookbook model, and more have been spotted wearing the simple white badges protesting the Trump administration’s immigration policies. “I don’t f*** with ICE,” explains Traitors winner Rausch.

Kushner—who cowrote the screenplay for Spielberg’s controversial, eerily prescient film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—recalls telling the director, “You do understand that we’re going to get into an enormous amount of trouble” when Spielberg decided to do the movie.

But if you've never watched the First Lady get on and off a plane, Brett Ratner's got a movie for you.

Jason Zengerle, author of a revealing new book about Tucker Carlson’s career, Hated by All the Right People, discusses the rightwing media kingpin’s potential presidential ambitions and much more: “I don’t think he just wants to be a podcaster. I think he really wants to change the country.”

“We know we are the ones who keep us safe,” says store owner Jessie Witte, as area vintage shops transform into command centers for neighborhood defense networks.

Snowstorms have long been an aptitude test for New York City mayors. For this particular blizzard, Mamdani coolly dressed the part.

What happens when a group of men, incarcerated under bleak conditions, are left to govern themselves? In Walpole State Prison in 1973, “peace reigned” for weeks—until the guards were sent back in.

For his first moments as the new mayor of New York City, Mamdani wore a jazzy tie made by a buzzy Indian designer.

A wave of AI-assisted “Kirkslop” has twisted the right-wing personality’s legacy—carefully molded by Republicans, Fox News, and religious conservatives after his murder—beyond recognition, writes Kieran Press-Reynolds. But is this a righteous answer to spin, or a new collective degradation?

W. David Marx’s Blank Space names the forces—including poptimism, edgelords, and the cult of the founder—that have stalled cultural reinvention over the last 25 years, and wonders what might make us create again.

Flaunting “traditional values” was once a winning strategy to gin up attention online, but being “trad” was never a true countercultural movement, argues the writer Katherine Dee. The real question is, can a counterculture be found online at all?

This spring, the 26-year-old Abugazaleh launched a primary campaign to unseat an 81-year-old Democratic congresswoman. Now she’s facing up to 15 years in federal prison after protesting ICE in her home state. “I think [the Trump] administration will face a lot more backlash than it expects,” she says, describing what she thinks comes next for the country.

On Halloween night, four days before Election Day, the Democratic mayoral frontrunner incites gleeful pandemonium among adults, kids, and broccoli-haired teens alike during the neighborhood’s annual costume parade.