Amanda Hess

The culture-wide search for doubles of famous men is an election-season gift: an apolitical democratic event where — for a brief moment — everybody wins.

Decades after Moore appeared pregnant and naked on the cover of Vanity Fair, the pregnant body is thoroughly eroticized and commodified — but still provocative.

In “Heartbreak Is the National Anthem,” Rob Sheffield chronicles how Taylor Swift has made fans, foes and even journalists part of her story.

Both campaigns are flooding the social network, in a project that’s both goofy and high-stakes: turning their candidates into influencers.

In “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” conservative politics and some corners of social media, a woman’s relationship to the home defines her role in public life.

La cargada conversación cultural sobre las mascotas y los niños —véase “Chimp Crazy”, “señoras con gatos y sin hijos” y más— revela las contradicciones ocultas de la vida familiar.

The charged cultural conversation about pets and children — see “Chimp Crazy,” “childless cat ladies” and more — reveals the hidden contradictions of family life.

The vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz, and his online fans, have elevated Midwestern dad vibes into nostalgic art.

The teenage bassist of the Runaways cut her music career short in 1977. Rather than retell her story, she’s reimagined it as a board game, Rock Hard: 1977.

The same unflattering supercuts and Photoshop jobs once used to denigrate Harris have now been flipped into celebratory artifacts of her candidacy.

Aunque la tecnología avanza, los estereotipos sobre las mujeres se recodifican una y otra vez.

Even as the technology advances, stubborn stereotypes about women are re-encoded again and again.

En medio de una crisis inmobiliaria inmanejable, las casas de lujo simuladas son una prueba de nuestro propio delirio.

She’s plotting a farewell tour. She’s starring in a documentary about her life. And she could only ever be herself.

One hundred years after his death, the Czech writer circulates as a pop idol of digital alienation.

The app’s influence on Hollywood, school and more.

A new category of apps promises to relieve parents of drudgery, with an assist from A.I. But a family’s grunt work is more human, and valuable, than it seems.

In “Rebel Girl,” the punk frontwoman reveals the story of her life — the men who tried to stop her, the women who kept her going and the boy who made her a mother.

For the past two decades, female presidential candidates on TV have been made in her image. Finally, that’s beginning to change.

Reesa Teesa’s 50-part drama about her marriage — one she says was built on lies about mortgages, car payments and a bad knee — is made for TikTok’s middle-aged users.