Remember when Katy Perry went to space? These were some of pop culture’s major moments of 2025 — and not all of them were great.

But as our real world continues to confuse, frustrate, and disillusion us, moments in pop culture—no matter how frivolous or ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. The rhetoric of popular culture surrounds us. It always has. It is the medium ...

Pop culture, short for “popular culture,” is the sum of various aspects of daily life—entertainment, sports, fashion, music, art and more. It’s dynamic, which means what stands at the top of pop ...

This spring, 80 students — including international students from more than 30 countries from Albania to Zimbabwe, many in their first year at Princeton — focused both a historical and a critical lens ...