Stephen Miller may appear like a grimacing extra on Sesame Street meant to prove a point about animus, but he is unquestionably the most toxic person in American politics, the warped draftsman of some of the most overtly racist policies in decades. Yet he has operated largely in the shadows, preferring to wield his…

Dare I say, it is a beautiful Friday morning. The sun is shining, the pernicious humidity has vanished, and somewhere in the bowels of this hideous country, Miley Cyrus appeared on a podcast that is ostensibly about sex to talk about sex in the way only Miley can :)

Director Karen Maine says she “doesn’t really” read reviews, but two about her debut feature Yes, God, Yes have caught her eye. The first, by Catholic News Service, rates the film as “O”—as in, morally offensive. This rejection only proves the message Maine was trying to get at with her film about a sexually repressed…

Virginia mayor Barry Presgraves is under pressure to resign after a post he made on his Facebook page last weekend, saying that Joe Biden had “just announced Aunt Jemima” as his running mate. Although Presgraves made this comment before Biden had officially announced Kamala Harris as his running mate, it was no secret…

In news that is not surprising, but is incredibly grim, the Senate has left for their August recess without coming to an agreement about a fifth coronavirus relief package—meaning that it will likely be several weeks, if not a month, before any legislation is passed.

Dolly Parton is a diva in the best sense of the word—she’s kind, and her discography speaks for itself, but she also has an entire amusement park named after her. (Honestly, I’m shocked more celebrities don’t have their own attractions—imagine what a Beyoncé theme park would look like!)

Disgraced singer and accused sexual predator R. Kelly is facing more legal action after failing to respond to a lawsuit against him by Faith Rodgers, one of his alleged former victims.

I used to joke that “Pinterest saved my life.” Not literally, of course, but during an especially dark period in 2011, the platform best associated with “Mormon women and Midwestern moms” (as recently noted by the Washington Post) became an unexpected lifeline out of depression and back into my creative self.

For reasons that I will never quite understand, Vanity Fair ran a breezy little piece on Trump adviser and ghoul Stephen Miller’s fairy tale romance with Katie Miller (née Waldman), a woman who shares the same passion for both “saving” America from the pernicious scourge of immigrants and inflicting as much pain and…

There are a zillion reasons why I have been mourning the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen. The one that hurts most is that the slow, drawn-out death of one of the most joyful YouTube channels on the internet could have easily been prevented.

NOW, the National Organization for Women is apparently still struggling to not be racist, even after a previous meltdown in June when members made allegations against NOW president Toni Van Pelt of racial discrimination. Still, the feminist organization founded by Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Pauli Murray, and…

For the duration of my life, I have prided myself on my ability to sit on the couch and watch whatever was in front of me, even if it was bad, for hours on end. Some might call this laziness, but I prefer to look at it as being open-minded enough to give just about anything a chance. This skill has opened my eyes to…