Piano lessons are sort of like braces. For a few years, everyone's parents paid a lot of money so their children could contort their bodies (fingers; teeth) and lie about doing something daily that, ...

The 2016 Rio Olympic Games was the birthplace for many firsts. But when it came to Muslim women in the coverage of the 2016 Olympics, a great deal of it was focused on how female athletes who wore the ...

Beyoncé's visual album Lemonade sampled a few artists but one of the most striking, memorable samples came from the voice of civil rights leader Malcolm X. Lemonade is about the power and strength of ...

For a condition that's quite prevalent among adults, there's little candid conversation about depression and mental health. According to a report from the National Institute of Mental Health, roughly ...

"As a child, that's your little space within the house," said James Mollison, a Kenyan-born, England-raised, Venice-based photographer whose 2011 photo book, Where Children Sleep draws attention to a ...

In 2001, the Portuguese government did something that the United States would find entirely alien. After many years of waging a fierce war on drugs, it decided to flip its strategy entirely: It ...

The art world is always obsessed with writer wunderkinder who bedazzle us with their early life talent. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zadie Smith, Dylan Thomas, Jonathan Safran Foer, Helen Oyeyemi, John Keats: ...

In the online art workshops of the white nationalist alt right, young neo-Nazis and neo-fascists trade simple aesthetic tips: Consider your color scheme in advance, build your image in sections of ...

When it comes to embarking on the journey of parenthood, lots of millennials are saying, "Meh. No, thanks." According to data from the Urban Institute, birth rates among 20-something women declined 15 ...

Trigger Warning: This piece contains descriptions and true accounts of self-harm. “This is for all my real friends out there,” said a girl with pastel pink hair on TikTok. She was sitting on the side ...

On Sunday, three people were shot dead at two Jewish community centers in the Kansas City area. It's believed that the suspect — identified as Frazier Glenn Cross, Jr., 73 — was once the grand dragon ...

A dynamic that has emerged from the unrest surrounding the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police last week is an increased demand for antiracist literature. People appear to have finally taken ...