Amy Cooper, who has been referred to as "Central Park Karen," is seen calling police to make the false allegation that an African American man was threatening her on May 25. (Christian Cooper ) For a ...

When you look up the hashtag #Karen on Instagram, a search that yields over 773,000 posts, the featured image on the page is a screenshot of a white woman staring intensely into the camera, pursing ...

It's an awkward time to be Karen right now. Thanks to a recently popular meme, the name has become a label for a privileged, entitled, rude, demanding, insufferable person, typically white and ...

Know what, let’s just ask a Karen about “Karen.” Like Karen Burris, a.k.a. the Chicago children’s entertainer Mary Macaroni, a.k.a. a moderator for the Karens United page on Facebook, a.k.a. a Karen ...

A middle-aged white woman in New Jersey intervenes on the side of the road after her adult daughter is pulled over by local police for not having current registration. The woman flashes her New York ...

To the editor: I agree with columnist Robin Abcarian that the “darkly funny” Karen meme is a good takedown of social privilege, but it is more than a little tinged with sexism. Why is this obnoxious, ...

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Karen Sun is a far cry from the “Karen” meme that has spread widely over social media in recent years. Aside from a shared first name, Sun — a 23-year-old Chinese-American — doesn’t exactly match the ...

"I know that I'll definitely not have any family members naming their kids after me in the near future." The "Families of the Mafia" star Karen Gravano has a lot more on her plate to worry about than ...

This correction is being published in the Chicago Tribune print edition: A Commentary piece on July 2 about cultural memes of “Karens” as examples of privileged and annoying behavior wrongly included ...