Every year is longer than the one that followed; also, sometimes it is shorter. In 2018, we survived whatever garbage this world threw at us, and like beautiful little raccoons digging through a dumpster, we made the best of it. Here’s what we wrote that we absolutely loved.

The witch has become an icon of pop feminism.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, considering every time I go to karaoke, I hear “Bohemian Rhapsody” probably 27,890 times. But Rami Malek’s Freddie Mercury biopic of the same name is now the highest-grossing music biopic of all time.

Yesterday, we covered the most popular (and ridiculous) toys for children in 2018. But now let’s rewind to 1898, when they—or at least one five-year-old named Marjorie—wanted toy ducks and a ball for a cat named “KittyKins.”

The Education Department will erase about $150 million in student debt, begrudgingly applying an Obama-era protection that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had attempted to dismantle.

Nancy Sue Wilson, the award-winning singer who lent her vocal instrument to the world for over five decades, has died at the age of 81. Wilson’s publicist confirmed that the iconic singer died at her home in Pioneertown, Calif., on Thursday following a long illness, according to Deadline. A specific cause of death…

The year is nearing its end, but scammer season is eternal.

A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala has died while in the custody of Customs and Border Patrol officials, after being detained last week close to the U.S.-Mexico border. The young girl, who reportedly had not had anything to drink or eat for days before being in CBP custody, died of septic shock, fever, and dehydration.

I don’t know, did we land on the moon? Plenty of people do not believe that we did, including the people in the farthest reaches of the internet and the most spiral minded Stanley Kubrick fans, but Stephen Curry, nice-guy star of the Golden State Warriors and husband of Ayesha Curry, is not one of these people, OKAY?…

Sondra Locke has died. She was a director and Oscar-nominated actress, but by The Hollywood Reporter’s account, she was just Clint Eastwood’s money-grubbing ex-girlfriend.

If you reach Dante’s fifth circle of hell you will find a swamp and also the White House’s annual Christmas party. There were blood-red trees. There was a band dressed like toy soldiers playing Christmas songs. There was Ivanka Trump dressed as Lizzie McGuire. Newt and Calista Gingrich emerged from their cryochambers.…

A $9.5 million settlement between Eliza Dushku and CBS came to light when the network hired a team of investigators to look into any overarching culture issues at the company, according to a new report from the New York Times. The settlement, according to the investigators’ notes, which the Times states it reviewed,…

On Thursday, NPR reported that multinational personal care corporation Kimberley-Clark voluntarily recalled some U by Kotex tampons, which were reportedly unravelling during use due to a “quality-related defect.”

There are moments in which algorithms don’t just appear to be branding and marketing products but in fact dreaming up the products themselves. Apparently the algorithm thinks we want this.

Sarah Rose Summers, aka Miss USA, faced intense criticism on Wednesday when a video recorded on Miss Colombia Valeria Morales’ Instagram Live showed the former Miss Nebraska making fun of Miss Universe contestants for not speaking fluent English. In the clip, Summers mockingly imitates H’Hen Niê (Miss Vietnam) and…

First, some background. Julie Andrews’s 41-year-old former model step-granddaughter Kayti Edwards long ago had a relationship with Dax Shepard, 43, now married to Kristen Bell. In a Daily Mail interview published Wednesday, Andrews said that she and Shepard later hooked up again, this time in 2009 when he was already…