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September 11, 2024
Tori Otten
Taylor Swift Immediately Makes Trump’s Terrible Debate Night Way Worse
Trump meltdown incoming in 3, 2, 1 ...
August 19, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Trump’s Bizarre A.I. Stunt to Win Taylor Swift’s Endorsement Backfires
Donald Trump is beyond desperate for Taylor Swift’s endorsement.
July 27, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Girl, So Confusing: Will the “Brat” Memes Help or Hurt Kamala Harris?
The vice president is having a brat summer. But can she maintain this groundswell of support from young voters?
July 23, 2024
Paige Oamek
Kamala Harris “Brat” Memes Spark Confusion Among Democrats
What does “kamala IS brat” even mean?
June 10, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s New Comments on Taylor Swift Will Gross You Out
A new book reveals what Donald Trump thinks about the megastar.
June 10, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Chappell Roan Calls Out Biden After Snubbing White House Invitation
The pop star called for a cease-fire in Gaza.
May 16, 2019
Jo Livingstone
Freeing Britney Spears
The pop star has spent more than a decade in legal bondage. How did this happen?
December 30, 2016
Adam Behr
The Year’s Celebrity Deaths Reveal a Pop Culture Deeper and Richer Than Ever
October 20, 2015
PodcastIntersection
Intersection Episode 7: Janet Mock Contains Multitudes
November 25, 2014
Sarah Marshall
'Duck Dynasty''s Success Is Entirely Based on Selling a Fantasy
The enduring, commercial fallacy of the "authentic" man
November 14, 2014
Becca Rothfeld
Thank You Taylor Swift for Making It Cool for Women to Act Crazy
July 2, 2014
David Thomson
50 Years Later, 'A Hard Day's Night' Is Re-Released
The film captures the charismatic insolence of the young Beatles
June 27, 2014
Daisy Lafarge
Lana Del Rey’s New Album Is a Sad Indictment of Post-Feminism
September 8, 1997
Margaret Talbot
Chicks And Chuckles
Bettie Page and the fate of pleasure in America.

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