Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling. Each circle in the chart ...

I called it CJ stroud was a bum and y’all blamed the Oline but he’s just genuinely been awful past his rookie and just got carried by a good defense if Im the Texans I’m not resigning him #Patriots ...

Dylan Darling put St. John’s in the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1999. Darling made a buzzer-beating layup to give the No. 5 Red Storm a 67-65 win over No. 4 Kansas in the second round of the ...