Aisha Hassan

“Bullying,” “Me Too movement,” and “toxic masculinity” are the first few audible phrases in a Gillette ad from January this year. Troubling images flash by: A boy running from a mob of bullies, workplace sexual harassment, a male executive patronizing a female colleague. “But something finally changed,” the ad’s narrator says, as press coverage of the Me Too movement fills up the screen. Then the scenes start to shift—men call out other men on inappropriate behavior, they step in when necessary—and the resounding message is that men must hold each other accountable. The video, less than two minutes long, had over 4 million views in 48 hours and has more than 30 million today.

Owen Rapaport pledged Delta Sigma Phi in 2014 at Dickinson College, a liberal arts college in Pennsylvania. Rapaport recalls that at another fraternity’s event during rush week, not Delta Sigma Phi’s, current fraternity members asked his group of freshmen, “What’s your dream threesome?”

Aryana Alexis Anderson remembers breaking down in tears the first time she spoke one-on-one with her mentor.

People who went to a party in the basement of Brooklyn Bazaar on April 20, 2018 would remember a damn good time. Skype Williams mixed techno into a smooth R&B tune; DJ Jody showcased the work of new female rappers—the DJs were overwhelmingly people of color, and mostly women. The crowd, just as diverse as the performers, vibed with the DJs’ high energy, recalls Monifa Foluke, one of the event organizers.  Friends danced along to an entire spectrum of musical genres, and people just came as they were without worrying about what they looked like.

This story is part of How We’ll Win in 2019, a year-long exploration of workplace gender equality. Read more stories here. 

This story is part of How We’ll Win in 2019, a year-long exploration of workplace gender equality. Read more stories here.

At least one person is winning big off the video-game phenomenon that is Fortnite: Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Fortnite developer Epic Games.

There are many ways to step into a new year. You can decide to make small but meaningful changes, or commit to a whole life thesis. Or, if you’re a poisonous and libidinous cane toad, you could jump onto a huge python and snake away from 2018 in style.

For more than a century, the New Year’s Eve ball has dropped in New York’s Times Square to ring out the old and ring in the new. And broadcasters like Anderson Cooper and Ryan Seacrest are there to take viewers through the occasion, a TV tradition started by the late Dick Clark, who emceed a New Year’s Eve special for 40 years.

As 2018 draws to a close, it’s time for all those end-of-year lists again. Barack Obama, America’s most-admired man for the 11th consecutive year, posted his on Instagram today (Dec. 28).

There are only 67 Javan rhinos alive in the world, and all of them live in Ujung Kulon National Park in Java, Indonesia. That’s the same park hit last week by a deadly tsunami, triggered by the eruption of the volcanic Anak Krakatau island Dec. 22.

For the first time, Michelle Obama is the most-admired woman in the US, according to an annual poll conducted by global analytics firm Gallup.

Some of the world’s top esports players work as many as 80 hours a week, with much of the time spent on marathon video-game sessions that end up taking physical and mental tolls. According to a new documentary by CBSN Originals, this practice, known as “the grind,” is causing many professional gamers to retire by their mid-20s.

A new German law introduces a third gender option on birth certificates, passports, driver’s licenses and other legal documents. Now, instead of just “male” or “female,” people can also choose “diverse”.

Every year, the world regularly grapples with what is fair, reasonable, and right. But those concepts took center stage in 2018, as high-profile US political proceedings like the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh and special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation into Donald Trump’s presidential campaign captured the nation’s attention.

If you have a few thousand dollars to spare (or maybe even $40,000), you might be able to snag tickets to the final show of the critically acclaimed Springsteen on Broadway. But if you’re one of Netflix’s 137 million subscribers, you can watch the performance at no extra cost just five hours after the curtain falls.

A lot of people watch a lot of porn. To be more specific: There are over 125 million daily visits to the Pornhub network of sites, which includes RedTube and YouPorn, every day. And in 2018, “Stormy Daniels” and “Fortnite” were the top search trends on Pornhub (which has 100 million daily visits alone).

The biggest and perhaps best source of data about what people like to watch on the internet and what they would pay for doesn’t come from streaming giants like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, or Hulu. It comes from porn.

Stan Lee, the creative force behind the Marvel universe, died in November this year, aged 95. According to Google’s recently published 2018 Year in Search report, which shows the top trends in what people searched for this year, the world dedicated a lot of time to learning more about Lee and his creations in 2018.

You can tell a lot about the state of the world through what its inhabitants want to know about.

Fortnite is as much of a hangout as it is a video game.

This is the real life and this is not fantasy: Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” is the most-streamed song from the 20th century, and the most-streamed classic rock song of all time.

Roger the kangaroo was an imposing figure. He stood at six-feet-seven, weighed nearly 200 pounds, and rocketed to internet fame in 2015 after crushing a metal bucket with his bare paws. This wild and threatening-looking marsupial was deeply beloved by humans around the world.

The world’s super-rich collectively spent $6.6 billion in a recent 12-month period on homes worth $25 million or more, according to new research by Knight Frank, the global real estate consultancy firm. The ultra-wealthy bought these residences in cities around the world, but Hong Kong was the most popular market.