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 Thursday, Pearson, an education publishing company, apologized for publishing a nursing textbook section that contained racist material about treating patients from different cultural backgrounds ...

I was underdressed the day we shot Larry's pivotal phone call with Piper for the first season of Orange is the New Black. It was 9 degrees on Fifth Avenue, and I wore New Balances and a pair of wool ...

This year, high school juniors and seniors will buy a $100 calculator that's older than they are. You remember the TI-83: the brick-sized graphing machine you likely covered in stickers and used to ...

Illegal, criminal, threatening, family-oriented, hard-working, patriotic — these are the contradictory words used to describe Latinos. They demonstrate an inconsistency we Latinos know all too well.

The opening voiceover of Dirty Dancing sets the scene as a simpler, more peaceful time — a last gasp of innocence for both Frances “Baby” Houseman and for the country. “That was the summer of 1963, ...

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 ...

When Lady Gaga performed her Sound of Music tribute at the Oscars in February, many onlookers were genuinely surprised by Mother Monster's chops. Critics had assumed she was all meat dress and no ...

Donald Trump was elected president, despite almost every poll predicting a slamdunk win for his Democratic competitor Hillary Clinton. While there are many reasons behind Trump's sudden upswell 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 NASA announces a new planet and a spacecraft careens past Pluto, humanity is getting closer to discovering whether or not it's alone in the universe. So why haven't we been contacted by another ...

Remember when everyone was like "Feminism is so dead?" Well, the last few years have absolutely proved that theory wrong. Activists have become increasingly skilled in the digital age at using the ...