Hello again, our most valuable Hoot readers. For the past several weeks, our country’s greatest athletes competed in the Winter Olympics in Milan. Despite none of us being anywhere close to athletic enough to even have a chance to qualify, our editors have some strong opinions about the games. So,

Last week, President Donald Trump released an A.I.-generated video of himself playing hockey for Team USA and punching members of the Canadian team. Three weeks ago, he shared an A.I.-generated video depicting former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. These videos are not unique; the

4chan is an image board created in October 2003. It has been linked to multiple mass shootings, including the Christchurch mosque shootings, which killed 51 people. The site functions as an anonymous space with a variety of forums that center around various topics: My Little Pony and other pop culture

 On Monday, Feb. 16, late-night television host Stephen Colbert planned to interview Texas senate candidate James Talarico. However, he was told by his network’s lawyers that he was not allowed. The reason was because of a ruling that requires radio stations and broadcast television channels to give equal airtime to

I’ve always prided myself on being able to keep up with the latest Internet trends, but since early 2025, I’ve been seeing one that has utterly bewildered me. By now, you’ve probably seen it on your Twitter (X) or TikTok feeds—Westerners attempting, with various degrees of seriousness, to “become Chinese.”

It is not much of a stretch to say that marijuana is the most popular it has ever been in the United States. Though cannabis remains federally illegal, the Department of Justice began the process of removing cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, meaning that it will