Alex Abad-Santos

At every Olympic Games, there are winners, and there are many more losers. Dozens of gold, silver, bronze…and a whole bunch of people who walk away with nothing. Officially, Norway won the most in ...

What is Grindr supposed to be? I’m not sure if this existential question is one that keeps anyone up at night, but with the recent announcement that the hookup app is rolling out EDGE, a $500 per m...

Generally speaking, the athlete stories that come out of the Olympic Games are about the countless hours spent on the ice, on the slopes, and at the gym; the multitude of personal sacrifices made a...

When Olympic ice dance pair Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillame Cizeron take to the ice on Wednesday, they’ll do so as the favorites for gold.  The French duo currently leads the pack with a sco...

Figure skating is nothing without tension. Humans speed across slick ice, balancing on a thin metal blade and making sharp turns. The athletes defy physics, jumping and twisting their bodies in the...

One of the biggest stories coming out of the 2026 Australian Open is how well the American tennis players are doing. Four US women — Amanda Anisimova, Coco Gauff, Iva Jovic, Jessica Pegula — are in...

Perhaps it’s the natural human inclination toward nosiness, but people are always interested in what others are and aren’t buying. Those purchases always invite some kind of judgment, comparison, e...

To outsiders, the phenomenon of Heated Rivalry could not seem more impossible: A show about two rival hockey players is one of the most popular shows on HBO Max. Not only that, but these two puck b...

This past month I, like many Americans, flew back home for the holidays. On the first leg of that trip, from New York to Los Angeles, a dog in a “service dog” vest barked at me at the gate. The dog...

This month, a video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. popped up on my feed. Wearing a blue dress shirt and tie, the bronzed, tin-voiced secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services began doin...

To anyone who doesn’t dream of labor, the idea of a personality hire — a person who gets jobs because they’re a fun, unique human to be around — can be a bit jarring. And there’s an idea that might...

It’s always been puzzling that on Thanksgiving, a day when Americans are supposed to appreciate all they have in life, we are supposed to eat turkey, a big bird that deserves little to no thanks.  ...