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The Goods

The Goods

Why we keep falling for fitness fads

By Emily Stewart August 25

You can ignore Andrew Tate

By Rebecca Jennings August 24

TikTok is great for spreading political messages — and conspiracy theories

By Rebecca Jennings August 17

Is a payment plan for that new jacket a good idea?

By Emily Stewart August 11

How the internet broke the calendar

By Rebecca Jennings August 10

The best $4 I ever spent: A sparkly hijab

By Ayan Artan August 6

The inflation prices that broke us

By Emily Stewart August 4

Instagram is once again in its flop era

By Rebecca Jennings August 3

The stock market can be an emotional roller coaster. It shouldn’t be.

By Emily Stewart August 3

Stopping inflation is going to hurt

By Emily Stewart July 28

How the anti-aging industry turns you into a customer for life

By Emily Stewart July 28

What GDP does and doesn’t tell us

By Emily Stewart July 28

Bully your rich friends into commissioning more art

By Rebecca Jennings July 27

The pandemic impulse purchases we grew to hate

By Emily Stewart July 27

The best $180 I ever spent: My union fees

By Angus Chapman July 23

Not Okay is a horror movie for the influencer age

By Rebecca Jennings July 20

We all just fell for Amazon’s made-up holiday yet again

By Emily Stewart July 14

Tacky is back!

By Rebecca Jennings July 13

The best $79 I ever spent: Paint for my very own bedroom walls

By Tshedza Mashamba July 3

One Good Thing: A Danish drama lets its girlbosses fail

By Anna North July 2

Flying will be the worst part of your summer vacation

By Terry Nguyen June 30

NFTs and the monetization of hope

By Emily Stewart June 30

Brands want to be more than your friend. They want community.

By Terry Nguyen June 30

The nontoxic social media app that tells you your toxic traits

By Rebecca Jennings June 29

You shouldn’t have to ask your boss for an abortion

By Emily Stewart June 28

The anti-abortion “social safety net”

By Anna North June 28

Labor exploitation, explained by Minions

By Rebecca Jennings June 22

Actually, maybe don’t learn to code

By Emily Stewart June 16

How Catholicism became a meme

By Rebecca Jennings June 15

Juneteenth merch is American consumerism at its most crass

By Julia Craven June 15

The best $2,618 I ever spent: A second wedding ceremony

By Jay Deitcher June 12

The Goods

It’s a terrifying time to have kids in America. It doesn’t have to be this way.

How do you raise kids in a country that seems to hate them?

By Anna North June 9

One Direction fangirls created the internet as we know it

By Rebecca Jennings June 8

The bad vibes economy

By Emily Stewart June 8

The kids who have never known life without Covid-19

By Anna North June 7

Might I suggest not listening to famous people about money?

By Emily Stewart June 2

Staring down 30 at the Taylor Swift dance party

By Rebecca Jennings June 1

The best $17.59 I’ve ever spent: A totally normal alarm clock

By Lora Kelley May 28

How the internet gets people to plagiarize each other

By Rebecca Jennings May 24

Why must we pay to have a slightly less miserable time at the airport?

By Emily Stewart May 19