On Tuesday, Netflix released its first teaser-trailer for its upcoming series Away, which stars Hilary Swank as the commander of the first mission to Mars. I can’t think of anywhere I’d rather be right now than outer space—far, far away from people, the crumbling nation, covid-19, Twitter discourse about literally…

As part of the White House’s apparent ongoing effort to infect as many Americans with covid-19 as possible, the Trump administration has decided to bully states into reopening their schools in the fall. Don’t worry, kids, it’s not like virus cases are spiking right now or anything.

I don’t usually turn to Justin Timberlake for his thoughts on the political discourse, since it seems like he’s here more for the good times than the hard times. But every so often he shows up for something—sometimes quite poorly, but I guess he tries—and in this case, it’s for getting rid of racist Confederate…

From Ted Bundy to Ed Gein, there’s an entire industry devoted to speculating why terrible men behave like monsters, delving into every denied hug and feeling of inadequacy as a method of understanding how history’s worst people became so awful. So it was only a matter of time before someone began speculating whether…

Recently, Kaiser Health News, a nonprofit publication that covers health policy, asked the country’s major health insurers how they were managing a very specific and American problem: The hospital bills received by people who were treated for an illness that was almost certainly covid-19, but were unable to get…

When you start a new job, you’ll probably be instructed to go to Human Resources (HR) if you ever experience any sort of harassment at work—but this path hasn’t always been the most useful for employees. In fact, according to a new survey from Zenefits, one out of five workers do not trust their HR departments, and…

Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler, staunch defender of the Second Amendment (for white people) and part-owner of WNBA team the Atlanta Dream, is not a fan of the WNBA’s plan to acknowledge that Black Lives Matter movement when their season starts this month. The WNBA players’ association announced on Monday that teams…

If you believe what you read on the internet, it’s a beautiful day to arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor.

Emily: In the last installment of our Summer of Bad Books Club, I asked what characteristics a Good Woman has in the world of My Sweet Audrina. The ways in which VC Andrews and, by extension, Audrina, attempts to classify women’s behavior is fascinating, deeply flawed, and, contradictorily, a bizarrely accurate…

Genesis 1, of the newly translated Ben Affleck Bible, reads: In the beginning God created Ben Affleck and Dunkin Donuts. The Dunkin Donuts was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Ben Affleck was hovering over the face of the chain restaurant. Then Ben Affleck said, “Let…

The Republican Party is nervous. President Trump’s Democratic competitor, former Vice President Joe Biden, is soaring in both national polls and battleground state polls. Trump’s approval ratings are on a steady downward trajectory. And the party’s so-called woman problem is getting worse, in the halls of Congress…

This Fourth of July weekend was special for theater enthusiasts across the country. After years of waiting, Hamilton, the hip-hop musical about the life of Alexander Hamilton, was finally made available for all of us who couldn’t afford to see it—thanks to our benevolent Disney+ overlords. The show, a runaway hit on…

In the hierarchy of queens, there is obviously Beyoncé, who asserts near-total dominance over the descriptor. Then there is Lil’ Kim, who first called herself Queen Bee in the ’90s. And then there are the actual queen bees, who provide a critical role in the continued existence of pollinators worldwide. Far below…