The Outline

If a climate apocalypse is imminent, should we bother paying our debts?

A serious answer to a half-serious question.

We’re living in an American renaissance for Spanish-language television

Secrets and lies at Guantanamo Bay

Ricky Williams was my favorite athlete

The Future Jun 20

If PornHub wants to support a cause, start with sex worker rights

The Future Jun 18

What I wouldn’t do for a good night’s sleep

Raytheon said “Gay Rights!”

Culture

Ode to the Dark Universe

Mourning the cinematic universe we surely deserved: an absolutely bonkers one.

Very online

The best streaming service is the National Film Board of Canada

Many are having an extremely normal one

What’s your IG?

Not ‘The Onion’: People actually think ‘The Onion’ helped Joe Biden become cool

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Must

Being normal

Rome Ramirez don’t practice santeria, but he has been the lead singer of Sublime since he was 18

$146,680

The annual salary needed to rent the average Manhattan apartment without a guarantor.

Do literacy programs like Big Reads really work?

For the lonely and isolated, massage provides a much-needed touch of intimacy

Traveling is an elitist nightmare

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Culture

Don’t slow that bus down, we’ve got places to be

‘Speed,’ which turned 25 this month, is a beautiful movie about the importance of public transportation.

I’m upset

I’m Upset: I hate when New York Magazine’s Grub Street Diet talks about L.A.

I’m Upset: The “zero waste” people must be stopped

I’m Upset: Why are there so many tiny holes in my shirts

Culture

Meet Lord Rod, the sweet potato king of Yokohama, Japan

There’s only one thing to call a person who installs an oven to roast sweet potatoes on the back of their Mazda Miata: a legend.

Listen up

Tomorrow 167: Fill the void with orange soda

Tomorrow 166: Don’t cancel Keanu

Tomorrow 165: Maybe robots can save us?

Tomorrow 164: Death Stranded

Tomorrow 163: Nuclear Play Date

Tomorrow 162: Daenerys, interrupted

Tomorrow 161: Camping with Pennywise

Tomorrow 160: The nerd wars

Tomorrow 159: The end of the game

Tomorrow 158: Written in the stars

Out Westeros Podcast, Season 1 Episode 0: Valar Dohaeris

Tomorrow 157: Apple is at your service

Tomorrow 156: The secret knowledge

Tomorrow 155: 2020 battle royale

Tomorrow 154: A Momo like this

Tomorrow 153: The wisdom of the crowd

Tomorrow 152: The value of being distracted

Tomorrow 151: The cult of AI

Tomorrow 150: TikTok and the total creeps

Tomorrow 149: President Evil

Tomorrow 148: We welcome your input

Tomorrow 147: CES is not for alive girls

Tomorrow 146: A lack of innovations or apologies

Tomorrow 145: Mary Poppins plays on god mode

Tomorrow 144: The year of the dunk

Tomorrow 143: Pewdiepie has red-pilled Sonic the Hedgehog

Tomorrow 142: Tumblr has snapped

Tomorrow 141: Be thankful (but also scared)

Tomorrow 140: There’s a time travel scammer in the White House

Tomorrow 139: Blue Midterm Redemption 2

Tomorrow 138: You better vote

Tomorrow 137: A third way

Tomorrow 136: Child's play

Tomorrow 135: Leah Finnegan, the mother of fear

Power

The cancer capital of America

My secret to paying off my student loans: my mother died

Would Marx beat Engels at Fortnite?

It would be an honor to have The Mars Volta play anything along the campaign or in this presidency.

Why Pete Buttigieg is bad for gays

Please... god... anyone but Joe Biden

Ask A Fuck-Up

AAFU: I slept with my best friend’s boyfriend

I feel terrible. How do I get her to forgive me?

Culture

‘Detective Pikachu’ is the first film aimed at millennial parents

Dany kind of forgot about the Iron Fleet.

The music video became [Madonna’s] platform to shock.

At last, an honest true crime podcast

Taking back Sunday

How to make a great anime adaptation

Power

In what sense is a drone a type of animal?

When we struggle to understand machines of war, we often turn to zoology.

Future

One small step for man, one giant leap for billionaires

Here’s why it’s so hard for small businesses to sell CBD

like you mean it this time

God saw all that He had memed, and behold, it was very epic

Trump has been... good?... for psychedelic drugs???...

“Broad swaths of the Midwest are drowning right now. Underwater. Farms, towns that will never be recovered and will never come back. And people are more concerned about helping oil companies than helping their own families? I don’t think so. I don’t think so.”

Power

Finally, the nostalgia industry has come for something I love

The ‘Final Fantasy VII’ remake threatens to turn me into one of those awful guys who complains about my childhood being ruined.

Power

AAFU: I just found out my boyfriend is pro-life

Culture

Tom Green is doing just fine

The Future

A Good Place: The YouTube mortician who taught me not to fear death

Power

Having two dogs at once is way harder than having one dog twice

Power

Will our next president be Bill de Blasioon?

Power

The thesaurus is good, valuable, commendable, superb, actually

Power

Dear hiring manager, you’re welcome

The Future

The sneaky way pharmaceutical companies use celebs to market their drugs

Power

Is it hopepunk to have a baby?

Culture

You are not above ‘The Masked Singer’

The Future

If we want to stave off climate change we’re going to need nuclear reactors

Power

Do what you love and you will never stop working

The Future

Navigating U.S. immigration sucks — here’s where everyone goes for help

Culture

Before there were internet rappers, there was Canibus

Good advice

AAFU: My boyfriend of two years ghosted me

AAFU: My friends are hanging out without me

AAFU: I wish I was closer with my brother

AAFU: How do I let go of my marriage?

AAFU: I can’t tell if my wife is depressed or just lazy

AAFU: My work nemesis has cancer

Culture

The unbearable wrongness of Gwyneth Paltrow

Please do not buy into her bullshit.