Naureen Khan

The 25 pieces of culture that explain the last 25 years From Lord of the Rings to the ramen craze to Ozempic, the cultural touchstones that help us understand the 21st century.

SO excited for this one. One of the things we say a lot in Vox culture is that pop culture is America's subconscious. So a few months ago, I pitched a question: 25 years into the 21st century, can we use 25 pieces of pop culture to explain where we are? www.vox.com/culture/4226...

They're trying to criminalize dissent. This is important.

A skeptic’s guide to quitting your smartphone I spent a week living with the new Light Phone. It wasn’t long enough.

If ever there were a time to log off, this is it www.vox.com/technology/4...

I tried to find my personal style and all I got was this existential crisis How fashion advice swung from “what not to wear” to “wear what you want.”

this one is for all my fellow millennials terrorized by What Not To Wear (by @constancegrady.bsky.social) www.vox.com/culture/4005...

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

are we all just googling "can you freeze canola oil" like morons?

The Luka Dončić trade controversy, explained for people who simply love mess A tall Slavic man changed jobs. Why is the internet freaking out?

It's me, a sports blogger www.vox.com/culture/3983...

utterly wild reporting from allie here!!! bsky.app/profile/alli...

I wrote about it. www.laura-bassett.com/p/yea-this-i...

Sign up for The Logoff newsletter | Vox Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters expl...

We all want to log off!!!! www.vox.com/pages/logoff...

My descent into glow-up madness Did a 75-day TikTok challenge make me uglier on the inside?

and then there is this masterful, darkly funny @rebeccajjennings.bsky.social piece on attempting to glow up that says so much about Where We Are now (and as a person who has purchased a lot of those undereye puffy strips on TikTok shop in search of a miracle!!) www.vox.com/culture/3930...

Are men’s reading habits truly a national crisis? The questionable statistic at the heart of the “men don’t read fiction” discourse.

got to edit two of my favorite pieces on Vox dot com in a single week!! first up, @constancegrady.bsky.social on how our fretting about men’s reading habits (it’s me, I’ve fretted) is built on one old and/or faulty stat (and why we remain convinced it's a problem) www.vox.com/culture/3929...

One of my favorite article genres is "tracking down a zombie stat" and here's a great addition. Have you seen the stat that men are only 20% of the fiction market? @constancegrady.bsky.social tries to track it down: www.vox.com/culture/3929... @vox.com

i hope all of dylan from gbbo’s chef-y dreams come true but even more than that, i hope he stars in the gritty origin story of Jafar

Why Wicked’s politics feel so bizarrely timely America and Oz have always had a lot in common.

One of the most interesting things about Oz is that while most of the children's fantasy classics of the anglophone world are English, Oz is an American fairyland. That means it becomes a weirdly effective metaphor for American politics. www.vox.com/culture/3885...

Sex After 60: A Special Digital Issue About the under-explored, under-discussed, under-celebrated sex experiences of experienced women.

🎺 presenting a Very Cool Thing: Cosmo's first-ever fully digital issue on Sex after 60!!! Just absolutely jam-packed with insanely good shit www.cosmopolitan.com/interactive/...

on CHRISTMAS? a holiday we do not really celebrate??

yesterday I told my dad about a dumb admin task I have to do before the end of the year and he said "why don't you just do it now?" outrageous

whyyyyy...is covid obsessed with me

How Come No One Told Me Getting Pregnant Would Be This Hard? So many women are navigating the harrowing transition from “if you let a man within 3 feet of you, you will get pregnant” to “on a breezeless night on the third full moon, you have a 2 percent c...

Talked to @hifortesa.bsky.social about something that really grinds my gears: sex ed makes us believe you can get pregnant at any point during the month and that it's easy

This leads to lower knowledge and empowerment about our bodies, sex, & fertility t.co/UdedrxtI5Q

Hello, hi! Helping put together a package for Cosmo
about women’s sex lives after 60. I’m on the hunt for essays + opinion pieces, and would especially like POC and LGBTQ+ perspectives. Pitch me! naureen.khan@hearst.com. Rates are $400+

wowowow, may we all live long enough to see the going out tops of our youth come back

so you go over there and post your little tweets and then you come over here and do the same thing??