Today, the Supreme Court ruled against free and comprehensive access to birth control under the Affordable Care Act, a long-term project of the Religious Right and a decision that will immediately prevent hundreds of thousands of women from accessing free reproductive care. The decision upholds a Trump Administration…

Here’s a list of words that do not describe how I feel right now: focused, nice, creative. How could I? It legitimately feels impossible to wake up and not feel like your limbs are being slowly ripped off while a blender goes to work on the fetid remains of what used to be your brain. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. That’s the sound…

On top of managing childcare and the demands of work during a pandemic, working moms now have additional stress to cope with—the increased risk of being fired for having kids. In a lawsuit filed recently, San Diego resident Drisana Rios alleges that her former employer, Hub International, fired her because her kids…

Reality television is at a pivotal point: how does an entertainment engine so dependent on offensive people behaving badly navigate the Black Lives Matter movement or any sociopolitical issue? There’s one possible answer—according to Page Six, undisclosed television networks are now providing “good-behavior bonuses”…

Mary Kay Letourneau, a former teacher who was convicted of raping a 12-year-old student who she later married, has died. She was 58.

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 one for employees. In fact, according to a new survey from Zenefits, one out of five workers do not trust their HR departments,…

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…