Why Does Everyone Have an Octobuddy Stuck to Their Phones?

Parsing your meticulously curated TikTok feed comes with guaranteed stops at the hypnotic, aspirational, sometimes ostentatious, and wholly unbridled entertainment central to the short-form app. “Get Ready With Me (GRWM)” is one, the four-word precursor to a deeply confessional sit-down style makeup tutorial; then, the quintessential “Outfit of the Day (OOTD),” sometimes documented in the…

How to Apéro Like the French

Barring the afternoon snack of school children, it’s true: Snacking between meals isn’t really a thing in France. Unless, of course, you swap in the word snack for “apéro.” Pausing for a drink and small bite during apéritif hour is sacred across France — and easily translates to your own backyard. The word apéritif, derived…

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jasmine Crockett’s Appearance-Based Insults Reflect an Ugly New Norm in Politics

Debates can get, well, ugly in Congress, but rarely do they descend to the level of physical taunts. Yet that is exactly what happened on Thursday during a meeting of the House Oversight Committee. During a discussion about whether Attorney General Merrick B. Garland should be held in contempt of Congress, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene,…