Culture & Criticism
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Venessa Wong
Eight People Share What It’s Like To Live On $100,000 A Year
“Why is it still this hard when we have so much?”
Venessa Wong
The Most Unexpected, Endearing Thing About LeBron James
A list of his suspected fibs has been making the rounds throughout the NBA fan community for more than a year.
Estelle Tang
Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Is Now On Hold. If You Applied, Tell Us What Your Plans Are.
BuzzFeed News wants to know how you’re planning around all this uncertainty with federal student loans.
Venessa Wong
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” Is A Fitting Tribute To Chadwick Boseman
The movie thrives in intimate moments between the central characters, but loses the thread with MCU fan service.
Albert Samaha
Voting To Stop Inflation Doesn't Work The Way You Think It Does
Inflation was the leading issue for many midterm voters. Any policy solutions, however, would take a long time to have an effect.
Venessa Wong
Donald Glover Doesn’t Know What To Do With Black Women
As the hit FX series Atlanta nears its conclusion, the Black women on the show continue to be plot devices or stereotypes.
Shamira Ibrahim
“Love Is Blind” Is For Absolute Masochists And People Who Hate Other People
The Season 3 finale and reunion episodes show just what a farce this series is. (Warning: Contains spoilers.)
Estelle Tang
His Family Controlled The Justice System. Then His Wife And Son Were Shot.
The murder of two members of the Murdaugh family made headlines last summer. Now a new HBO documentary contextualizes the case.
Alessa Dominguez
Season 5 Of “The Crown” Follows The Royals In Their Wildest Era Yet
The fifth season of Netflix’s drama is actually rather kind to its royal subjects, and it features great performances by its new cast. (Some spoilers.)
David Mack
Katy Perry Is Backing Rick Caruso For LA Mayor, And It’s Exposing How Your Faves Might Be Quietly Conservative
“I am voting for a myriad of reasons (see the news) but in particular because Los Angeles is a hot mess atm," Perry wrote on Instagram.
Kelsey Weekman
Aaron Carter Is Dead. He Left Behind A Tragic Legacy.
Famous by 9 and burned out by 20, the preteen heartthrob had a painful childhood and a fraught adulthood. It feels like he barely had a chance.
Scaachi Koul
This Is What It’s Like To Live On Less Than $15 An Hour
“[If] I pay the light bill this month and truck this month, then they just won’t get paid next month when I pay the mortgage.”
Albert Samaha
Social Media Made Me Go On A Chaotic Italian Vacation, And It Was Heavenly
This week, social media made me do this.
Kelsey Weekman
A Woman Accidentally Killed Her Rich Husband In The ’50s. A New Book Uncovers What Came Next.
Deliberate Cruelty reframes a ’50s crime scandal as a story about ethics. The result is more moralistic than revealing.
Alessa Dominguez
A Mom Who Tweeted About Throwing Out Her Kids’ Halloween Candy Said She Was Accused Of Abuse After It “Escaped The Orbit” Of Her Followers
Meet this week’s Bean Dad.
Kelsey Weekman
The Rise Of Stay-At-Home Girlfriends And Sleepy Memes Suggests The Era of The Sleepytime Girlfriend Is Upon Us
The internet is obsessed with not working, and frankly, it’s about time.
Kelsey Weekman
The Queerbaiting Discourse Is Out Of Control
Kit Connor, the 18-year-old Heartstopper star, came out as bisexual this week, but he shouldn’t have had to.
David Mack
This Halloween, Nothing’s Scarier Than An Aging Woman
X, set in 1979, is clearly inspired by slasher movies and exploitation flicks of the period, while Barbarian breaks apart tropes of contemporary “elevated” horror. (Warning: Contains spoilers.)
Celia Mattison
Dr. Oz Used To Be A Good Doctor. What Happened To Him?
Mehmet Oz was once an established surgeon with a good reputation. Then, he started hawking shoddy supplements and trying to get elected in a state he barely lives in.
Scaachi Koul
From “Halloween” To “The Shining,” See Rare Photos From Horror Film Sets
Take a peek into how some of the most iconic horror scenes came to be.
Kenneth Bachor
Justice for Carly Rae Jepsen in a Taylor Swift Press Cycle
The pop girlies have given us a lot to think about this week.
Estelle Tang
Netflix’s “Unsolved Mysteries” Encourages Us To Admit What We Don’t Know
I don’t know if aliens and ghosts exist, but I’m certain humanity is far from understanding everything about the world.
Albert Samaha
If You've Got Personal Finance Questions, We May Have Answers
BuzzFeed News is launching a personal finance column!
Venessa Wong
"Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills" Has Too Many Villains
Tonight's juicy reunion episode promises a showdown between Kathy Hilton and Lisa Rinna. But will it be enough to improve this season's horrible vibes?
Shannon Keating
The (Horny) Agony And Empathy Of Colleen Hoover
Smart women allow their worlds to be turned upside-down by dynamic, intriguing men, because of seduction.
Fran Hoepfner
Andrew Tate’s Hustlers University 2.0 Has Made At Least $11 Million In Just One Month
We enrolled in Andrew Tate’s Hustlers University 2.0, and found more anti-LGBTQ and anti-women rhetoric from the controversial influencer, who claims he’s helping people “escape the matrix.”
Ikran Dahir
Emmanuel The Emu Never Had Bird Flu
Photos of Emmanuel’s owner cuddling the bird had experts concerned about the illness spreading to humans, but it turns out he was just stressed.
Katie Camero
Taylor Swift's "Midnights" Is Her Best Album Since "1989"
For fans who have done the reading, Midnights is a cohesive and at times stunning development for a songwriter who has made evolution her signature.
Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Tom Brady And The Selfishness Of Conventional Masculinity
The star quarterback promotes traditional expectations that as long as a man does well at work, everything else will be fine.
Albert Samaha
