Ernest Owens knew we had lost the plot on cancel culture when his younger brother declared he had been “canceled” — by his teacher. Owens, a Philadelphia-based journalist and the author of “The Case ...

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.” ...

This should all be remarkable: that the tale of the banh mi circulated so widely and enjoyed such a tenacious afterlife in political polemic; that it was subjected to such wild distortions; and that ...

The month, American politics has laid bare a truth too big to ignore: our modern politics is consumed by a hypocrisy so deep it threatens the very fabric of our democracy. On Sept. 10, that hypocrisy ...

The Trump administration and the far right are engaging in dangerous, un-American tactics to suppress speech they dislike, cementing their control over institutions and the public by undermining First ...

Graphic of four people. some drawbacks of cancel culture include its tendency for hypervigilance and tunnel visioning. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. If you spend time on social media, you’re ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In his new book "The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global," Stanford professor Adrian Daub argues that the ...

Conservatives have pushed for people who made social media posts celebrating the killing of Republican activist Charlie Kirk to be fired from their jobs, sparking debate about whether they are now ...

It’s no secret that many celebrities are terrified of being canceled. From Blake Lively to Kendall Jenner, numerous public figures have faced dents to their reputations, floods of hate comments, mass ...

“Previously a voice for the canceled, they’re now the ones canceling,” intoned NBC News last month in a story, headlined “Trump and Republicans find themselves on the other side of the cancel culture ...

"Cancel culture" is a phantasm. Yes, as any true believer will insist, there have been cases where a person saw consequences — such as being suspended for a year from a plum teaching gig — for ...