Crushes

Not all heroes wear capes, but some have adorably-shaped face fur giving the appearance of a perfect little Zorro…

I’ve been accused of having bad opinions in the past. In fact, when we were kids, my brother’s favorite insult for…

Even though John Mayer is a signer-songwriter, and decent looking enough to have slept with an untold number of…

At midnight on Friday, Taylor Swift released her latest single, “Gorgeous,” the first few seconds of which she had te…

In the seventh grade, there was this boy. There are a lot of “boys” at that age, but he was different. He was the…

Of all the emotions, it’s humiliation that scars the most deeply. The memory of an embarrassing moment that happened…

A cartoon by Sara Lautman.

Recently, some of my friends have been lamenting the lack of good crushes in their orbit as of late. All in their…

Welcome to Would U?, an academic forum in which I share my gross crush of the week and ask if you, too, would bang…

Last week we asked you to pour your heart out about your biggest, most-heartwrenching, wonderful, terrible first…

So you already told us about the first time you had sex, but who was it with? Or, more appropriately, who do you wish…

Crushes can be so fickle. One day they're there, blazin' away in your heart and in your loins, and the next day…

Welcome to The List, a semi-regular feature in which Julie Klausner enumerates pretty much whatever.

Brian Williams co-hosted The Today Show this morning, where he was served coffee in an oversized mug (hilarious),…

We already had plenty of reasons, but here's the linebacker co-writing (with congressman Michael Honda) an op-ed on…

Sex Offender Week on The Awl got me thinking, how long's it been since I wrote about gender politics? Twenty…

Per an 8-year-old girl's winning script at a benefit, Stewart played a man who wins over Barbie "through his…

Although he's leaving for Cleveland, our favorite football player has left his adopted New Orleans a parting gift, do…

For one thing, he doesn't care if anyone calls him a "Pinko Communist Fag from Berkeley." Also:

Jersey natives Jon Stewart and Brian Williams compared themselves to Snooki and The Situation last night, who,…