Chegg
GQ
Junior High
The Mashup Americans
Open
Optimist
Peloton
The Steve Jobs Archive
Study Hall
Substack/Tegan & Sara
This by That
Epic Digital/Vox Media
Wondery

Trend Pieces

On the Soul-Lifting Potential of a Cloud Print, Vogue

How to Survive Becoming a Coachella Elder, Vogue

Why We Can’t Leave Britney Spears Alone, GQ

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Bennifer, GQ

Justice for the Bimbo, New York Magazine

Why Are Garden Gnomes So Polarizing?, Architectural Digest

Weezer’s Pinkerton and the Invention of the Manic Pixie Dream Boy, The Guardian

Death on Live Stream: How Social Media Changed the Way We Mourn, Rolling Stone

Have You Encountered the Cuckboi?, MEL

Girl, Send Me a Frext, Medium

Celebrity Profiles

Fifteen Years After Leaving Playboy, Holly Madison Found A New Mansion, Bustle

Marshall Vore Wants You to Feel Something, Nylon

Cody Rigsby’s Raunchy Ride to Stardom, GQ

Patty Schemel Had to Lose It All, Junior High Mag

A Conversation With Jax Taylor, MEL

Features

The New Design Critics, Dwell

Swimply, and the Public/Private Pool Divide, Dwell

More Women Are Getting Off to Porn Gifs, Thanks to Tumblr, Glamour

Can Women Build a Better Tinder?, Wired

The Pink Ghetto of Social Media, Medium

Scenes From a Divorce Party, MEL

What It’s Like When Your Tinder Date Lives Across the US-Mexico Border, Fusion

What Justin Bieber’s New Male Fans Tell Us About the Modern Man, Fusion

Surviving the Secret Childhood Trauma of a Parent's Drug Addiction, Pacific Standard

Column

The Trend Times: exploring design fads in the age of doomscrolling, Dwell

Digital Packages

Horniest Summer Ever, GQ
A cultural deep dive into the state of sex during the summer of 2021, after a year of quarantine.

Who Are the Women of the Manosphere?, MEL
Groups like incels, men’s rights and mgtow appear to be dominated by white men. But there’s a surprising number of women among them.

Can Men Sharing Their Experiences With Abortion Make It a Better Experience for Everyone?, MEL
An uncomfortably honest and comprehensive guide for men about supporting your partner—and yourself—through an abortion.

The Teen Boy, MEL
A yearlong investigation into the life and times of the American teen male.

Fight Week, MEL
Whether they’re actual brawls or fights against the status quo, our interest is is piqued when we see people going at it.

Ass Week, MEL
From getting it, to eating it, to having it, welcome to ass week, this was a weeklong exploration of the body part du jour.

I Call This Look, Medium
An exploration of fashion, performance and identity, inspired users to create their own “looks” and resulted in the platform’s first and most popular meme.

The Men Issue, Medium
What is actually going on with men, right now? What are they afraid of and unwilling to talk about? How do the inner lives of men affect women, other men, our culture?

Investigations

The ‘jihottie’ Who Stole Her Heart, MEL
The inside story of one Indian woman’s online love affair with an ISIS fighter.

When Youtube Red-pills The Love Of Your Life, MEL
What it's like to watch, terrified and helpless, as your partner becomes radicalized by hate on the fringe right.

The Perfect Irony That the ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Film Was Also a Real-Life Scam, MEL
How Leo got caught up in a money-laundering scheme that screwed the Malaysian people out of billions.

Newsletters

I Think We’re Alone Now, Substack/Tegan & Sara
Musicians Tegan and Sara talk to each other about music, writing, art and life using voice notes, annotations of lyrics, personal essays, video conversations, and unreleased music.

Fitness Flipped, Peloton Studios
Peloton Instructor Tunde Oyeneyin sits down with some of the most interesting experts and personalities from the world of fitness and beyond to challenge and transform some of our own ideas about health, strength, mental wellness, and maybe even ourselves.

Even the Rich, Wondery
On Wondery's Even the Rich, hosts Brooke Siffrinn and Aricia Skidmore-Williams tell the stories of some of the greatest family dynasties in history.

Good Tape, Top Down Studio x Dane Cardiel
Top Down’s first independent publishing project is a print magazine about podcasting made in collaboration with publisher/audio pioneer Dane Cardiel.

100 Battles, Epic Digital/Vox Media
Searching the globe, we asked journalists and documentary photographers to show and tell us about the vital businesses operating within their own communities.

The Futures Issue, GROW
Ginko Bioworks attempts to demystify how the idea of The Future is constructed—a toolkit for building our own alternative paths forward.