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We Asked A Bunch Of People Why They’ve Ghosted Someone They Dated
"Dump people the way you want to be dumped."
How Do You Calculate The Emotional Cost Of Ghosting Someone?
A data-driven exploration of ghosting: how we ghost, why we ghost, and what emotional debt we owe the people we date.
"Sugar Run" Is BuzzFeed Book Club's February Read. Check Out An Excerpt Here.
After 18 years spent in federal prison, Jodi McCarty finds herself in a rundown Georgia motel, drawn to a captivating single mother. (An excerpt from Mesha Maren's <>Sugar Run.)
The Gym Isn’t Usually A Safe Space For Fat Women, But It’s Become My Sanctuary
After a lifetime of assuming I would never excel in a sport, my body is proving me wrong.
What Happened To Lindsay Lohan?
A decade after Lohan’s career first unraveled, she's attempting a comeback with Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club on MTV — but we’re still trying to understand exactly what went wrong.
Why I Can’t Bring Myself To Do The "10 Year Challenge"
The "10 Year Challenge" meme imposes a specific kind of narrative on our lives, in which the line on the graph should only go in one direction: up and up and up.
15 Beautiful Lines Written By Mary Oliver
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet died today at age 83.
9 Wintertime Shows To Be Excited About, 11 To Give A Chance, And 7 To Avoid
So many new TV shows are coming. Let us try to help you!
"Dirty John" And "Escape At Dannemora" Strain The Limits Of Prestige True Crime
In the scramble to extract big meaning (and meaty roles) from true crime stories, scripted series like Dirty John and Escape at Dannemora may make them less interesting.
I'm My Parents' Last Chance For Grandkids. Do I Owe Them?
As the youngest of three queer siblings, I'm my parents' last chance for grandkids. But I worry that by not having children, I'm robbing them of potential happiness.
I Make More Than My Immigrant Mom Ever Has. But I Can Never Repay Her.
My mom gave up so much to give me a better life in America. I owe her — and other immigrants — so much.
“Schitt’s Creek” And The Return Of The Nice Comedy
TV shows like Schitt's Creek, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and The Good Place show how earnestness is the new wave.
Netflix's "You" Captures The Hell Of Dating As A Straight Woman
The dark dramedy takes the horrors of modern dating to hilariously morbid extremes. Warning: Spoilers ahead.
“Good Trouble” Is The New Fun, Tawdry Drama About Twentysomethings You Should Be Watching
The new show Good Trouble doesn’t require that you watched The Fosters, but the spinoff benefits from its two central women characters already being so fully realized and layered.
My First Medical Patient Was A Dead Man
The cadavers my medical classmates and I have learned to dissect remind us of the debt we owe to everyone who places their body in our hands.
A “Rape Fantasy” Plot Sent Her To Jail. Now She’s Fighting Back.
Michelle Hadley never thought she had enemies, until she was framed for a heinous crime.
The “90 Day Fiancé” Train Wreck Just Stopped Being Fun To Watch
The price you have to pay for watching 90 Day Fiancé, seemingly, is that you have to admit to yourself that you’re a bad person who likes bad things.
This Is What Black Burnout Feels Like
If the American dream isn’t possible for upwardly mobile white people anymore, then what am I even striving for?
I've Been In Prison For 15 Years. The Showers Are Hell.
Step by step, I shuffle forward amid the mass of bodies, waiting to get inside.
Ellen DeGeneres And The Limits Of Relatability
After decades trying to convince an anti-gay mainstream that she’s a relatable person — gay, but “just like you” — Ellen ended up in a prison of her own making.
I’m Definitely In Debt, But I’d Rather Not Say How Much
If no one knows how much money I owe, or how much I have, then they don’t know me. And if they don’t know me, then I’m safe.
Is It Just Me, Or Is Marie Kondo’s Netflix Show Weirdly Dark?
Netflix's Tidying Up With Marie Kondo promises that you can organize your way to "your ideal life." But are messes really a cause of our problems, rather than a symptom?
Here’s What “Millennial Burnout” Is Like For 16 Different People
“My grandmother was a teacher and her mother was a slave. I was born burned out.”
Poetry: After Watching “Surviving R. Kelly”
"People want me to believe / there’s a difference when the result / is the same, same, same."
The New Spider-Man Movie Makes Live-Action Superheroes Look Boring
Cartoon superheroes have made a big-screen comeback with Incredibles 2 and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, a film so vibrant it makes you wonder if all superheroes would be better off animated.
“I’m Doing Great”: A Black Millennial On His $100,000 Student Debt
Michael has a lot of student debt — almost $100,000 at this point — and he’s trying to free himself from it the only way he knows how: getting another degree. An excerpt from journalist Reniqua Allen's It Was All a Dream.
She Trusted Her Husband To Handle Her Money. It Cost Her More Than She Imagined.
“He’s bitching about me spending $25 on a pedicure, and then I come to find out that it was my $25.”
I'm In Five-Figure Debt Because Of My Dog
When my dog was diagnosed with life-threatening cancer, I went into five- figure debt to pay for treatment. And I don’t regret it.
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
I couldn’t figure out why small, straightforward tasks on my to-do list felt so impossible. The answer is both more complex and far simpler than I expected.
66 Books Coming In 2019 That You'll Want To Keep On Your Radar
We tried to keep it short. (Presented in no particular order.)
