Reading Elon Musk’s cringey tweets is enough to give anyone secondhand embarrassment, so just imagine what it must be like to be related to him. His daughter Vivian can’t change who her father is, but ...

It’s safe to assume that few moviegoers went to see It this weekend looking for a treatise on race in America. Most went to be terrified by the demon clown introduced in Stephen King’s 1986 novel, and ...

On Thursday, Pearson, an education publishing company, apologized for publishing a nursing textbook section that contained racist material about treating patients from different cultural backgrounds ...

"As a child, that's your little space within the house," said James Mollison, a Kenyan-born, England-raised, Venice-based photographer whose 2011 photo book, Where Children Sleep draws attention to a ...

Twitter is like a drug: addictive, poorly regulated, responsible for dazzling highs and rock-bottom lows. But right now, at this moment, let's forget all the trolls, mansplainers, Nazis and sitting ...

Research proves what our parents have been saying all along: Modern pop music really is worse than older generations of pop music. Not only that, it has negative effects on your brain, too — if you're ...

In June 2020, amid nationwide protests against police brutality and systemic racism, Little Women star Florence Pugh took to Instagram to acknowledge her own past contributions to the problem — ...

Last month, reports emerged that a sex toy manufacturer was launching a worldwide competition to find the world's most beautiful vagina. While the pageant prompted more than a few outraged responses, ...

(Update: Google confirmed that on Thursday evening, after Mic published this story, the Coincidence Detector app was removed from the Chrome store for violating Google's hate speech policy. Google's ...

On Monday, climate activist Greta Thunberg delivered a blistering address to the United Nations, accusing the adults in the room (aka assembled world leaders) of endangering her future by refusing to ...

After a week-long controversy around his podcast, involving rather bizarrely a boycott of Spotify from Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, comedian and mega-podcaster Joe Rogan has finally responded. Amid ...

In 1974, an obscure economist scribbled some thoughts on a napkin that served as the engine for the most influential presidency of the past three and a half decades and the most unequal economy ...