Purity culture meant I endlessly accommodated other people’s desires and barely knew my own.

From meat dresses to messy interruptions, the VMAs used to be pop culture’s wildest night. It’s time to stop playing it safe.

For many women, true crime offers more than a scare—it can be a way to process fear, seek validation, and imagine justice.

Cigarettes on the runways was the first sign that the body positivity movement is passé. Now, GLP-1s have spawned an ultra-skinny revival.

The singer-songwriter is our newest pop princess—if a pop princess can be nothing like other pop princesses.

The pop artist is part of a complicated new ecosystem in which stars and their fans are more intertwined than ever. But where does that leave the person at the center of all that fame? 

Brinity is back from the Villa and keeping each other first.

The actor tells Cosmopolitan about being the “final girl,” filming with fake blood, and her aunt’s Chucky doll collection.