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“The way we describe ability and care has changed over the centuries, but my relationship with Kiddo doesn’t need to be defined.”

Before Stonewall, there was Compton’s Cafeteria: “In August 1966—fifty years ago this month—transgender and gender-nonconforming customers at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria stood up to years of abusive, discriminatory treatment by the San Francisco police.”

Inside the secretive and mysterious world of Urban Outfitters, youth-culture behemoth and $3.4 billion empire.

The fascinating history of the Argentine ant, a species whose global reach and dominance matches only our own.

“How did you not see this before? I ask myself. You were too hammered, I answer back. That summer I see, though. I see that booze is the oil in our motors, the thing that keeps us purring when we should be making other kinds of noise.”

The secret Hollywood procedure that has fooled us for years: “beauty work,” or the Photoshop of the Silver Screen. “[T]he first rule of beauty work is: Don’t talk about beauty work.”

Why are people building elaborate residential towers for no one to live in?

Novelist Ben Obler was feeling secure in his recovery from porn addiction. Then along came Franny, to test it.

Read, a former editor-in-chief of Gawker, examines the rise and fall of the polarizing site.

Beauty criticism analyzes the ways we can subvert a society that would have us subsumed by self-loathing. We use the tools we’ve been given. Makeup, then, can be a weapon. And it can be damn fun.