The government of Mexico slashed funding for 20 programs that supported women and girls by nearly 2 billion pesos, or $105 million, gutting nine of them completely and severely hobbling the rest.

Harvey Weinstein has deferred his arrival at Rikers Island just a touch longer, making a pit stop at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan on account of chest pains.

Vanessa Bryant has filed a lawsuit against the company that operated the helicopter that killed her husband, Kobe Bryant, and their 13-year-old daughter Gianna, saying the pilot was negligent by flying in cloudy conditions when he should have cancelled the flight.

The U.S. appeals court on Monday upheld a Trump administration rule that prohibits tax-payer funded family-planning clinics from referring patients to abortion providers. The ruling will impact all clinics in the Title X program for low-income women, and puts added strain on several facilities.

Draped in head-to-toe Lakers gold, Beyoncé opened the memorial for Kobe and Gianna Bryant at the Staples Center with a heart-wrenching rendition of “XO.” In the packed, 20,000-person stadium known as the house that Kobe built, Beyoncé was backed by a choir and musicians clad in all white. “I’m here because I love Kobe…

Jurassic Park, a cinematic achievement in its own right, is the sort of film best enjoyed at any time because dinosaurs are endlessly entertaining and Laura Dern’s acting deserves a retroactive Oscar (her win for Marriage Story does not do her entire body of work justice). The appeal of Jurassic Park and its…

Back in 2018, my colleague Megan Reynolds wrote a blog about the Instagram influencers who routinely bombard luxury resorts with ridiculous requests to finagle their way into free room and board... in exchange for glowing posts, of course. Many of those requests came from people who aren’t even influencers—randos with…

One of the many strengths of Rachel Vorona Cote’s debut non-fiction book, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today, is her ability to make meaning—and light—from intersections between her own life and Victorian literature. Academically trained, Vorona Cote’s Too Much is a meticulous close-reading of…

The “I have black friends” defense has long been a method of excusing racism, but the phrase also serves a second purpose: it’s a convenient self-absolution for white people who genuinely want to believe that centuries of systemic oppression and racism have left them singularly untouched and without a racist bone in…

Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of rape in the 3rd degree and criminal sexual assault in the 1st degree. He faces up to 25 years in prison, the New York Times reports.

Katherine Johnson, a pioneer in mathematics and manned space travel whose story was told in the film Hidden Figures, has died at the age of 101, NASA has confirmed. Johnson began her work as a “computer” at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ Langley laboratory in 1953; she would retire in 1986. Within…

On Friday, somewhat counter-intuitively, our favorite Canadian bloggers Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took to their website, sussexroyal.com, to announce they would be abandoning the term “Sussex Royal,” a hit for the former duke and dutchess’s attempt to keep the brand strong. In a nearly 1,200-word post, the couple…

As if we need more proof that our so-called criminal justice system functions as a way to punish poor people and doesn’t give one shit about survivors of domestic violence, here’s a terrible, and deeply unsurprising, story out of Louisiana—local judges have been forcing people who are seeking restraining orders and…

I’ve been waiting for this day, and it has finally arrived: The YouTubers, boy bands, and supermodels are fighting.

The Amazon Prime show Hunters, which follows a group of Nazi hunters in the 1970s, has gotten mixed reviews from critics, who’ve found it tonally confusing and jarring. It also got a very damning review from the Auschwitz Memorial, which says the show’s depictions of immense brutality are so exaggerated and…

When I was in the ninth grade, two television shows debuted that would go on to define a significant portion of my teenaged experience. One, The O.C., achieved some kind of widespread cultural status and also ruined high school for me by making me think it would be fun. The other, One Tree Hill, had both Chad Michael…

According to the Associated Press, Greyhound, the largest bus company in the country, has officially declared that they will no longer be allowing Border Patrol agents without a warrant to conduct routine immigration checks on their buses.