The first time I visited Magic Jewelry to have my aura read, I told myself I was doing it as a joke. The tiny store in Chinatown is impressively hard to find, practically blending into the background on the busy corner of Canal Street and Centre, its one identifying marker a burning green neon sign humming its name.…

Prince Harry has already given up alcohol in solidarity with his pregnant wife (Meghan, have you heard of her?), but now he’s taken a new and, dare I say, treasonous step toward healthful living: He’s quitting coffee and tea.

Science nerds have been threatening us with the prospect of self-driving cars for years, but now that they’re finally on the verge of becoming a reality, it’s clear some people aren’t ready. Instead of just accepting that technology isn’t going to quit until our brains are 87 percent Apple product, some Arizona…

New York City’s new non-binary gender option—gender “X”—is officially in effect. New Yorkers can now change their birth certificates to reflect their gender preferences, and parents can choose “X” for their newborns.

Good morning and Happy New Year, how are we all feeling this morning? Are we going to tackle 2019 with the same enthusiasm with which I will tackle this Dirt Bag—bleary-eyed, with a mild cold but FILLED with caffeine?! Yes.

One last 2018 barf to rule them all.

When I was a young, stupid, and spoiled tween, I wanted a Louis Vuitton bag, because all the other young, stupid, and spoiled tweens I knew had one. My parents could not and would not purchase me a multi-hundred dollar handbag, so I bought a $20 knockoff and told everyone it was real. No one believed me! I was so sad.

I have spent a surprising amount of time thinking about Lady Gaga’s face this year, perhaps because a certain film kept trying to suggest there was something wrong with it—that it was a face meant to be overcome—even though it seems like a perfectly normal and good face. Whatever the case, come 2019 it’s possible we…

The West Bank and Gaza are experiencing an epidemic of antibiotic-resistant superbugs that doctors say are taxing already overwhelmed hospitals and medical facilities, and could spread elsewhere.

This New Year’s Eve, go home to your parents’ house, assuming you can. If you can’t, head to another family member’s house, the person you love and trust and know through blood or marriage or adoption. You with me?

In 1998, Congress passed the Copyright Term Extension Act, which—like its name implies—extended the copyright of works published between 1922 and 1978 by an additional 20 years, from 75 years to 95 years. On Tuesday, January 1, that extension period runs out, and works from Marcel Proust, Agatha Christie, Edith…

Hillary Frank, creator and host of the wildly popular parenting podcast The Longest Shortest Time, says she encountered “the special misogyny reserved for mothers” when first trying several years ago to get her show on the radio. As Frank writes today in a New York Times op-ed, she was met with “rejection after…

Deepfakes, or pornography in which face-swapping technology has been used to generate fake videos, first made the news at the end of 2017, when a Reddit user released videos featuring the faces of several celebrities and then subsequently made an app widely available for anyone to use.

According to a new report, Samantha Markle is on a police watchlist for those “fixated” on the royal family. I mean... if the shoe fits....

Mike and Alexandra Chau are the parents behind @FoodBabyNY, a popular foodie Instagram account that frequently features their children crammed into the shot, making faces or gesturing towards the food. The Instagram started when their son Matty was just a newborn, according to a short profile of the Chaus in the New…