When I noticed the records on the wall behind YEИDRY during our video call, she showed me her favorite. Then she held up another, a Björk record her boyfriend had just bought her, which she counts ...

Plato wrote centuries ago that “one of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” And I hope you’ll forgive my academic snobbery for ...

When Andrea Bejar was four or five years old, she always slept next to her grandmother, and one night she told her, “Abi, when you die, I’m going to grab onto ...

Years ago, when Craig Jelinek was running Costco, he floated the idea of raising the price of the food court hot dog to co-founder Jim Sinegal. “If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you,” ...

When VICE’s Luis Prada ordered ramen on a fake food-delivery site this month, he waited two minutes for a meal that did not exist. When the timer ran out, his “delivery driver” called, speaking in the ...

Around 300,000 new songs are released on streaming platforms every Friday. Most of them are built to be scrolled past by the following week. But amid the noise, a rare jewel is always worth stopping ...

Another Monday, another stack of headlines we would rather not read before our first cup of coffee: war threats, a nor’easter flooding the Northeast, and a midterm race that seems to get more ...

At Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s 7 a.m. press conferences, the Mañaneras, Jorge Ramos would cite official numbers and tell the Mexican president that the number of people dying in Mexico was ...

Ask your mamá or abuela how to make one of their recipes, and you’ll rarely get exact measurements. Instead, you’ll get a four-minute voice note with the latest chisme on a tía you didn’t even know ...

If you look around the room you’re in, chances are there’s a phone charging on a nightstand, a laptop on the couch, or even an e-bike parked outside your apartment or home. The one thing they all have ...

Salt Lake City hit 109 degrees Fahrenheit on July 12. It was its hottest temperature since records began in 1874, according to Wired. Nine days earlier, Washington, DC, tied its all-time warmest ...