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 ...

Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez called in to a Monday news conference in Austin, Texas. His voice, carried over a reporter’s phone and amplified for the room, described his own gunshot wound for anyone who ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Fidel Castro did it in 1959, Augusto Pinochet in 1973, and Hugo Chávez in 2006. Vladimir Putin began in 2000 and finally shut down the last remaining media outlets in 2022. Regardless of whether they ...

More than 30 Minnesotans crowded onto one stage at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis on Thursday night to accept the biggest honor of a ceremony four decades in the making. Organizers chose Minnesota ...

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 ...