Lil Nas X, Clapback Champ

One after another, they came with venom for Lil Nas X. The basketball star Nick Young. The governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem. The rapper Joyner Lucas. Candace Owens and various right-wing Twitter personalities. Greg Locke, a Tennessee pastor. Fox News. Nike. They were clueless. Blissful, almost — lambs blind to the slaughter they were…

The Year of the Wedding After-Party

If 2020 was the year of the Zoom wedding, 2021 promises to be a year of after-parties. Covid-era newlyweds who pared down their guest lists and exchanged vows via livestream are planning full-on second weddings. But with those plans come an awkward set of etiquette questions. Is it OK to ask virtual guests to attend…

How to Get Your Closet Under Control

An overstuffed closet is a daily frustration: sweaters falling off shelves, shoes that seem to disappear into a black hole, closets rods cluttered with so many hangers that squeezing even one more in requires herculean strength. So we force the door shut and try to ignore the problem, even as we accumulate more stuff. But…

Join Warde, Rachel Nguyen’s Slack Community

Even before Slack, the office chat app that was released in 2013, announced plans to expand beyond workplace messaging, people were using it to organize and gather in ways that had little if anything to do with their employers. Artists, activists, entrepreneurs, advice seekers, members of residential communities, mutual aid groups, superfans and hobbyists have…