If the novel Animal Farm taught us anything, it is that animals should be ranked in order of importance, and like several of my colleagues, I rank giraffes among the best (though I put elephants at number one). So it pleases me to say that there is a brand new giraffe in the world, and she is a stunner.  

While his sister Maggie is an actor whose career I think about regularly, Jake Gyllenhaal is someone I routinely forget exists unless my co-workers inspire me to question his jewelry preferences. And though my favoritism is perhaps unbeknownst to the siblings Gyllenhaal, it was on this day that Jake became a hero in…

Worried the terrible customer service, tiny seats, baggage fees, lack of food, and frequent cancellations might not be quite enough to make customers completely miserable while using their services, airlines have decided that passengers should probably no longer have TV.

Johnson & Johnson has recalled 33,000 bottles of baby powder after the Food and Drug Administration found evidence of asbestos contamination in a single bottle purchased online.

Alec Baldwin, a man who made a career comeback by being very good at playing petulant, tone-deaf, wealthy men, seems to have some sort of gossip column calendar that gives him yearly reminders to show the world that he is also all of those things in real life.

In the weeks leading up to the release of Todd Phillips’ Joker, some critics caused a stir online after implying that the titular character’s sympathetic backstory could inspire violence, particularly from other angry white men. According to Movies (and Other Things) author Shea Serrano, while the discourse around the…

On Thursday, amid reports of his involvement in Trump’s conversation with Ukraine’s president, Energy Secretary Rick Perry announced he would step down by the end of this year; this news comes just one week after acting Homeland Security Secretary, Kevin McAleenan, also resigned—which got us thinking: Just how many…

The girls are fighting!!!

Earlier this week, my colleague Lisa Fischer interviewed Movies (And Other Things) author Shea Serrano about the ever-lasting endurance of romantic comedies. He argued that the best rom-coms abide by a particular format, and as time goes on, the pieces maneuver to create something interesting-yet-familiar. At the…

Nah: Katy Perry, “Harleys in Hawaii” - Many aging rockers would like a word with Katy Perry, who is not-so-ambitiously trying to steal their retired-American-motorcycle-Hawaiian-vacation vibe. This track is a bit more apathetic than I’m used to Perry sounding, and the result is an unmemorable tune about nothing. Take…

Earlier this month, the Trump administration appointed George Mentz, an author and consultant with a penchant for unsettling power poses, to the Commission on Presidential Scholars. In the scope of things, this is a small matter: nominees don’t have to be confirmed by Congress, and the group’s essential function is to…

Sorry to my current significant other, but this 30-year veteran private investigator who lives in a re-created medieval chamber where she stores her hundreds of disguises is most likely the love of my life.

Nancy Pelosi is an absolute powerhouse. Despite my criticisms of the Speaker of the House (and I have plenty), it would be foolish to deny that Pelosi will go down as one of the most consequential American politicians of our lifetime. What I don’t understand, however, is the kind of meme fervor Pelosi attracts when put…

Pete Buttigieg sucks, for all the reasons I laid out in detail here—from his technocratic worldview to his penchant to describe his milquetoast policy plans as a sort of pragmatic progressivism. But a new reason to add to the list? His newly discovered contempt for Medicare for All, which he deployed—some might argue…

Two female astronauts are making history right now and you can watch it happen live. NASA’s Christina H. Koch and Jessica Meir have teamed up for an all-female spacewalk outside the International Space Station to replace a faulty battery charger. Koch stepped out of the ISS first at 7:38 a.m. ET, followed by Meir, who…

The film Greener Grass starts with one suburban housewife giving her baby to another out of politeness, and it only gets weirder from there. The brainchild of Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe, who met years ago in their New York Upright Citizen’s Brigade sketch group (they’ve both since relocated to Los Angeles), Greener…