In no particular order. 1) “Barbie” (2023), directed by Greta Gerwig Dressed in pink and featuring pop music and a star-studded cast (Margot Robbie, America Ferrera, Ryan Gosling and Will Ferrell, to ...
Whether he was teaching journalism at Stony Brook University or reporting on Long Island school districts, Martin Buskin made ...
Open Conversations is the rebranded version of The Statesman’s former special issue known as Sex and Relationships. This year’s managing team decided to make this change to increase readership and ...
The Open Conversaton’s survey was conducted by Maggie Gawor, Michelle Grisales, Viyang Hao, Humza Malik and Jonathan Pascuzzi. The results were written by Pascuzzi.  For this year’s Open Conversations ...
As the new year settles in, new year’s resolutions get reexamined and with that comes the internet’s favorite game: “How to Rebrand Yourself 101.” Scroll on TikTok or YouTube for a couple of minutes ...
We are living through a collapse — not economic, not environmental, but romantic. According to a recent Tinder survey, nearly all of participants have admitted that the dating environment is getting ...
For this year’s Open Conversations special issue, formerly known as Sex and Relationships, The Statesman is taking a closer look at how Stony Brook University students approach relationships through ...
The Onion Bagel is a satirical column for The Statesman. You wake up in the morning, roll over and grab your phone, powering it on to doomscroll. Before you’ve even seen a single video, you’re ...
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Look through the filmography of any old Hollywood movie star, and chances are, they appeared in a Western. Humphrey Bogart starred in “The Treasure ...
Women are not objects of desire — they are agents of it.  “Just come be the man I need” is a lyric from the Grammy Awards’ Best New Artist of 2026, Olivia Dean. In the song, “Man I Need” (2025), Dean ...
When I was in a relationship, [I started to] compare it [to others’ relationships online], and you don’t know what’s actually going on,” Molly Gaffey, a senior majoring in psychology, said. “You start ...
As the spring semester progresses and academic demands intensify, many Stony Brook University students are finding themselves pushing through burnout and exhaustion rather than addressing it. For some ...