Since 2007, TIME magazine has welcomed online input to its "TIME 100" list of the most influential people in the world. It's a meaningless exercise in faux-democracy; the votes have nothing to do with...

Pop singer Sky Ferreira rose from relative irrelevancy on Wednesday (April 16) when her new video for "I Blame Myself" was met with accusations of racism for its one-dimensional portrayal of black men...

As this month commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Kurt Cobain's death, I am reminded of the iconic headlines that alerted the world to the tragedy. Dramatic, sensationalized headlines like the Seattle...

AV Club reported today that "Khaleesi," a word from the fictional language Dothraki of the Game of Thrones universe (approximately translating to "queen"), is a trending baby name: 146 "Khaleesi"s were...

In October, a tongue-in-cheek blog post laid out the argument against a Wonder Woman film: female action heroes don't work, no director would want to make it, no actress could suit the role, and Catwoman...

When I wrote about the 'other side' of the #CancelColbert controversy, the side that is being ignored by the mainstream media airtime but is at the heart of why the movement is so important, I realized...

When I first saw the "#CancelColbert" movement filling up my Twitter dashboard, my initial reaction was to defend the host. "But it's satire!" I cried at my monitor. "It was a joke about racism, not a...

In December, when I wrote about the surprise release of Beyoncé's self-titled fifth album for Imprint Magazine, I dismissed the argument that its marketing gimmick was the only force behind its explosive...

Should ABC Family have known better than to offer us a peek at the premise of its Alice in Arabia pilot before the show even went into production? From a business perspective, it was hardly wise, but...

I recently had the good fortune to be able to attend a lecture by Professor Ritch Savin-Williams of the Cornell University Human Ecology school. The esteemed professor spoke to an audience of Cornell alumni...

Trigger Warning: sexual assault, ED In one of the most bizarre moves of a career characterized by publicity-grabbing stunts, Lady Gaga invited performance artist Millie Brown to vomit on her during...

Following decades of network technology development, a quiet breakthrough was reached in 1991 when Tim Berners-Lee published the first publicly-available website, info.cern.ch. This week is being celebrated...