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“As 2025 comes to a close, I’m continuing a tradition that I started during my time in the White House: sharing my annual lists of favorite books, movies, and music,” Obama wrote while sharing the ...

Every week, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the previous seven days, awarding one ...

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Somewhere between sleep and wake as The Eagles’ “Hotel California” played on loop in my earbuds, I woke up to a dissonant Amtrak intercom chime and these words from our train conductor. Even in my ...

My best friend is a loudmouth bully who harassed me yesterday when I arrived late for Happy Hour, then he took off in a huff ...

You've likely heard the saying that goes along the lines of "never meet your heroes" or "meet your heroes and end up ...

Billy Steele, Deputy Editor, Reviews I didn’t discover Bandsplain in 2025, but I definitely listened to it more than any other podcast in terms of total time spent. Sure, that’s because most episodes ...

On the morning of my mom’s funeral, I arrived at the church before everyone else. Soon, people would begin trickling in. But ...

Paris Jackson shared insight into the reality of getting sober, six years after Michael Jackson's daughter removed alcohol ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...