Culture & Society

“If I Ran the Zoo,” published in 1950 by Theodor Seuss Geisel—better known as Dr. Seuss—is a children’s picture book in which a imaginative boy named Gerald McGrew des...

Six Minutes to Midnight dramatizes a tense chapter of 1939 British history, centering on a girls’ boarding school near the coast and the sudden disappearance of its enigmatic...

The 21 women's rules refer to a set of professional and interpersonal standards that outline expectations for communication, leadership, boundaries, respect, and workplace condu...

The transition from a Snake year to a Horse year marks a shift in energy within the Chinese zodiac, a lunisolar system that assigns each year to a repeating twelve-year cycle of...

Under the Banner of Heaven is a documentary that examines the 1984 murder of Brenda Wright Lafferty and its ties to fundamentalist Mormon beliefs and practices. Based on Jon Kra...

‘Too short dead’ is a phrase that has circulated online in connection with the Oakland rapper Too Short, born Todd Anthony Shaw. In this evergreen explainer, we clarify his...

Ghostface is the masked killer central to the Scream franchise, instantly recognized by black hood, red cape, and ghost-white mask. Since debuting in 1996, the character has def...

In 1997, 39 members of the Heaven's Gate group died in a coordinated suicide in California, believing their souls would reach an advanced civilization following the Hale-Bopp co...

The phrase "monkey slapped" usually refers to a widely circulated online image of a monkey with a red, slapping hand over its eyes. This meme format gained traction as a shortha...

Kim Kardashian in a bathing suit describes a wide set of widely shared images and clips in which the reality creator and businessperson wears a swimsuit in photoshoots, on red c...