A report from a grand jury in Pennsylvania shows the extent of the Catholic Church’s child sexual abuse problem, stating that there are more than 1,000 identifiable victims across the state and that leaders in the Church have been helping the perpetuators cover their tracks for 70 years.

In line with last week’s “pivot to dumb bitch energy,” as foretold by writer Kyrell Grant, comes a new essay from Andrea Long Chu about all the stupid things she wants, all the stupid things she doesn’t want, and leaving room for all the stupid things she might want in the future.

Southwest Airlines is updating their animal policy, and it looks like the horse girls can claim victory. Effective September 17, emotional support animals will be limited to cats and dogs. So that emotional support bunny? Yeah, it’s staying at home, boo. Your emotional support peacock? Don’t even think about it. Same…

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Melanie Griffith is done with marriage, but certainly not men. Or so she put it in a new interview with InStyle Magazine. Griffith, who’s been married three times—to Don Johnson, Steven Bauer, and most recently Antonio Banderas, who she married in 1996 and divorced in 2015—has no interest in walking down the aisle…

On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration gave marketing approval to Natural Cycles, an app that dubs itself “digital birth control.” It’s the first time a fertility-tracking app has gotten the official OK to advertise itself as birth control, which might seem an exciting leap into the baby-preventing future of our…

NBC News has an update on the phenomenon of pop-up experiences seemingly engineered specifically for the perfect viral selfie—things like the Museum of Ice Cream. They call them “Instagram playgrounds,” which is the best possible way to describe these places. “You can huff and buff all you want and say, ‘I can’t…

On July 16, in the middle of a dharma talk in Venice, California—the kind of talk he’s been giving for decades, first across the country and then the world—Buddhist teacher Noah Levine’s mind was on revenge.

Somewhere, in the windowless filming rooms of their respective Calabasas mansions, beauty YouTubers Jeffree Starr and James Charles breathe simultaneous sighs of relief that some other messy bitch is distracting attention away from their “problematic” brands. Bella Thorne, actress/raver/tipi-owner, fumbled her way…

A few weekends ago, I got into a series of arguments with a white man I didn’t know at a housewarming party for someone else I didn’t really know. Somewhere between our civil shouting matches about #BlackLivesMatter, American policing, and “not seeing color” (an idea I find absurd and counterproductive), he took the…