Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

A student walks across the Pleasantville campus of Pace University in Pleasantville, New York. The university waived application fees for a month in the fall. Credit: Emmanuel Guillén Lozano for The ...

When German immigrants came to the United States, they brought a tradition to forecast the end of winter with them — but there was one catch. According to German lore, if a hedgehog saw its shadow on ...

Children of the '90s have three core fears: quicksand, getting stuffed into a locker, and having sex with a close friend. Our elders in film and TV warned of these canonically agonizing ways to die, ...

Generative AI can support creativity—but only if you use it strategically. Simply giving people access to AI tools doesn’t guarantee better ideas. What matters is how thoughtfully they engage with the ...

Alix Earle is inviting guests into her dressing room. The leading social media personality (and recent “Dancing With the Stars” frontrunner) is expanding her digital universe with “Get Real With Me,” ...

There’s a lot of debate about weight machines in the fitness world. Some people gravitate towards them because they seem a heck of a lot easier than cranking out some reps with a pair of dumbbells or ...

How are they getting away with that? It’s an oddly familiar scene: you’re waiting for your boarding group to be called at your flight’s gate, watching a wheelchair bound passenger dodge lines and ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. President Trump’s media company is merging with a nuclear fusion energy firm in a $6-billion deal aimed at ...

Todd Combs, one of Warren Buffett's handpicked investment lieutenants and a key executive at Geico, Berkshire Hathaway' s crown jewel insurance business, is leaving the conglomerate after a 15-year ...

Bussin’ With The Boys is getting an altcast for Saturday’s SEC Championship Game. Taylor Lewan and Will Compton will call Georgia-Alabama on ESPN2 with Josh Pate and Harry Douglas. The news came out ...

The end of Donald Trump’s Georgia state case 10 months into his second White House term means that of the four criminal prosecutions in which he was indicted on felony charges, only the Stormy Daniels ...