Here, then, is a truly staggering statistic: Nearly 50 million Americans have donated to some sort of crowdfunding effort to help pay off someone else's medical bills. That number, released ...

Anyone could see this coming. After reports surfaced declaring the end of Julia Fox and Kanye West’s performance art, the outspoken actress took it upon herself to clarify that the relationship ...

When he wasn’t helping some 600 slaves escape through the Underground Railroad, David Ruggles was running a bookstore. In 1828, Ruggles opened a grocery store in New York City and later, as he ...

In 2001, the Portuguese government did something that the United States would find entirely alien. After many years of waging a fierce war on drugs, it decided to flip its strategy entirely: It ...

As the country — and the world at large — counts down the hours until we can all put 2020 in our rearview mirror, and hopefully move on to bigger and better things in 2021, Trump has spent the ...

This trend is fascinating, in part because there's long been a taboo associated with people (particularly, women) choosing to opt out of parenthood. Women who choose not to have kids have been ...

Wednesday was a big day in LGBT history: New York City added the Stonewall Inn to its list of citywide landmarks. Members of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously decided ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which monitors hate groups, called the KKK "the most infamous — and oldest — of American hate groups." The KKK's website states that the organization's ...

After Swift's 2018 "political awakening," things haven't gotten any better for the singer's non-white fans.

“Life is constantly highs and lows happening at once, often in the same room,” the former iCarly star tells Mic of her debut memoir. “It’s never just all sad or all funny.” ...

When I'm sad, I listen to sad music. When I'm happy, I listen to happy music. When I'm depressed, I don't listen to any music at all. This is such a reliable pattern in my life that I can use my ...

This week's impeachment hearings regarding President Trump and his potential wrongdoing with Ukraine might make it feel like the process has been going on for ages, but it's still just the ...