Year in Review 2020

Unfortunately, 2020 did not offer as much opportunity for schadenfreude as one might have hoped—it seemed that,…

Callie Russell, a competitor on the reality-TV series Alone, appears tirelessly optimistic—even with a porcupine…

“I want the world to know, that Billboard is a lie. You can buy No. 1s on Billboard,” is how rapper troll 6ix9ine kic…

Imagine a childcare system that allows parents to send their babies and toddlers to high-quality care, regardless of…

Reading! It wasn’t easy, but also, if the blog hit right, it was. Here’s the vast range of topics you all read over…

Sometimes a single word defines an era, and it’s fitting that in this exceptional—and exceptionally difficult—year,…

The end of this year is finally upon us, and while everything around us all is mediocre at best and extremely…

In May, Jason Derulo cracked his front teeth while attempting to eat an ear of corn that was attached to a power…

I started interviewing moms about parenting during the pandemic in the surreality of March, just as stay-at-home…

By my count, I have 36 houseplants in my apartment, 38 if you count the philodendron cuttings I stuck the other day…

A few weeks ago, stuck in the waiting room at the emergency vet (the cat is fine!), I watched the 2001 movie Monsters…

Don’t you hate it when you sign up for a newfangled social media app and your ideal handle is taken? Especially if…

In my nearly three years at Jezebel, I seem to have developed a reputation for unpopular opinions: Pringles are…

Last year, somewhere between story research and general curiosity, I found myself in Central Park with Shane Hobel,…

Twenty minutes before leaving Brooklyn, I had an existential crisis. This panic was uncharacteristically manageable,…

Ideally, at some point in 2021, we will collectively and tacitly agree to take 2020 and throw it in the garbage—a…

The year 2020 was marked by a lot: a global health pandemic that kept everyone inside and made conspiracy theorists i…

There’s no way to introduce this list without coming off dizzyingly earnest—good thing sincerity always plays when…

TikTok is a place that is simultaneously mostly bad and mostly good, a singular paradox that sustains itself on the…

Ha ha, everyone had a lot of free time this year, right? Even if you didn’t, or maybe, if you did, much like the…