'90s Week

In November of 1991, a few months after Clarence Thomas was confirmed to his lifetime appointment on the Supreme…

It’s played at weddings, at school dances, at concerts after doors open, at rodeos, at senior nights, at birthday…

In 2014, FiveThirtyEight published a story by Mona Chalabi titled “Why Women Don’t Cycle,” examining studies that…

It’s no surprise that the editors of the very first issue of People’s now-iconic “50 Most Beautiful People” issue…

The most enduring images of anti-abortion protestors in the ’90s depict murderers and zealots, the thousands of…

The X-Files premiered in 1993, gifting America with our first glimpse of a 25-year-old Gillian Anderson playing…

When I was a very little girl, my first love was just the entire concept of older girls. They weren’t crushes…

“Sex tape” became a household phrase via a portrait of domesticity, even if Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee comprised…

Contrary to what has previously and erroneously published on this website, there is such a thing as a single best…

Recently, roughly a quarter of a century after I fell into an adolescent obsession with Leonardo DiCaprio, I…

It’s 2010 and I’m in high school. My friend has invited me over to listen to her new record player, which she…

“I hate ‘feminist.’ Is this a good time to bring that up?” Joss Whedon asked. He paused knowingly, waiting for the…

In 1996, when an 18-year-old Fiona Apple was wrapping up work on her seminal debut album, Tidal, executives from…

When psychologist Mary Pipher was working as a therapist in the early 1990s, she began to notice an influx of…

There’s nothing wrong with pitting lust and responsibility against each other; the dynamic is arguably the most…

We are in a temporal loop. George Santayana’s 1905 observation that “those who cannot remember the past are…

In 1997 Joe Francis was working as a production assistant in reality television when he realized that most of the…

Cultural nostalgia recycles itself every two decades, so the conventional wisdom goes, and in February 2021, the…