Today, Explained

The steroid olympics

The fall of Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro’s media empire, The Daily Wire, faces a significant decline marked by plummeting web traffic, staff layoffs, and a loss of cultural relevance. This downturn stems from a combination of poor business decisions—such as investing millions into failed entertainment ventures like The Pendragon Cycle—and a fundam...

Raw milk is having a mooment

Cuba, too

Dating my AI

Ew, are we post-literate?

Late night’s long goodbye

Stephen Colbert’s departure from late-night television signals a broader decline in the traditional broadcast format, driven by plummeting advertising revenue and shifting audience habits. Networks are increasingly replacing expensive, long-running talk shows with cheaper, leased programming, such as Byron Allen’s come...

Everything is clips now

The modern internet experience is increasingly defined by the "TLDR-ification" of content, where short-form video clips dominate social media feeds to drive discovery. This shift has birthed "clipping farms"—industrialized operations that pay thousands of workers to generate viral clips for brands, political candidates...

The Great American Road Trip?

How the right embraced psychedelics

Prepping for doomsday (or Tuesday)

Disaster preparedness, or "prepping," extends beyond the stereotypical image of isolated survivalists in bunkers to include a diverse range of individuals focused on community resilience and practical readiness. Dr. Chris Ellis categorizes preppers into five distinct groups—homesteaders, sentinels, interdependents, Noa...

The data center war

The rise of death doulas

All Quiet on the Climate Front

Is it a bad book or is it AI?

The integration of generative AI into the publishing industry has triggered significant controversy, exemplified by the withdrawal of the novel Shy Girl after readers and critics identified hallmarks of AI-generated text. While industry professionals struggle to establish effective guardrails, detection remains unrelia...

Abortion pills at the Supreme Court

Controlling hantavirus

Chems in your cosmetics

"Affordability" is the new progressive

Is smoking back?