Folk Culture

Allow me to explain my toilet theory of the internet. The premise, while unprovable, is quite simple: At any given...

Updated on Friday, May 17 at 3:27 pmThree high-profile women in Congress got into it last night during a meeting...

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It is nighttime in Paris. We are more than a year into Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, and tonight, her fans...

Nearly 20 million people gained health-insurance coverage between 2010 and 2016 under the Affordable Care Act. But about half of...

This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to...

This article was originally published by Hakai Magazine.The last rat on Tromelin Island—a small teardrop of scrubby sand in the...

Preparing a birth plan requires considering the many things that could go wrong during childbirth—or, in the best-case scenario of...

Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much, but for a long time, they agreed on this: the more free trade,...

On-screen, during an early scene in The Fall Guy, the stunt driver Logan Holladay pulls off a move that looks...