Late Thursday night in West Hollywood, Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox climbed the roof of iconic Sunset Strip party spot The Roxy. She wore chunky leopard-print heels, and he wore Doc Martens. Where she looked dressed to party, he was dressed like an escaped cult member, in all white fatigues, bleached hair unkempt…

Owing to the lack of any formal rubric, like a standardized test, musical “genius” is hard to qualify. You know it when you hear it. The measure of an act can come down to how obvious they make it: Could anyone with working ears deny the genius of Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis, or Stevie Wonder? Floating beneath the…

On Thursday afternoon, when Tory Lanez tweeted that he would be breaking his silence over his alleged shooting of Megan Thee Stallion, the assumption was that he would go on Instagram live, just like she did, and refute any wrongdoing. But it turns out he decided to be an even bigger dickhead and drop a 17-track…

First Daughter Ivanka Trump is touring the Midwest, dutifully pushing her father’s propaganda of American prosperity and the so-called “Great American Comeback” alongside Vice President Mike Pence. The favored Trump daughter visited a manufacturing plant in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and the remnants of a black hair salon…

On the second night of nationwide protests following the announcement that no one was legally responsible for the killing of Breonna Taylor, the Louisville Metro Police Department arrested Kentucky State Representative Attica Scott, the state’s sole Black woman in its state legislature and the author of Breonna’s Law,…

When news of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing broke on Friday night, a familiar ripple of panic spread throughout social media. With Donald Trump free to appoint a third Supreme Court justice, giving the court more leverage to overturn Roe v. Wade, some urged women to start stockpiling emergency contraception or make an…

The CEO of Whole Foods, John Mackey, recently shared some thoughts with The New York Times about the waistline of America and the ravages of coronavirus, pointing to comorbidities like heart disease as “one of the reasons the United States has had more of a problem with covid” before suggesting that “people have got…

Here’s another small dribble of information about Cardi B and Offset’s impending divorce, which went public sometime last week and has been now batted around the gossip rags, much like the large bug your cat wants to kill but lacks the paw-eye coordination to do so.

Last year, the Finnish investigative journalist Jessikka Aro, who seems very cool and smart, was slated to receive the State Department’s International Women of Courage Award for her coverage of Russian troll farms. But then, as Foreign Policy first reported at the time, the State Department then took the award back…

On Wednesday, the Louisville Courier Journal reported that a message reportedly sent by Louisville police major Bridget Hallahan last month spoke condescendingly about members of the Antifa and Black Lives Matter movements, saying “they will be the ones washing our cars.” Bridget Hallahan is currently commander of the…

The rumors are true.

If there was any doubt that Donald Trump would not go quietly into the night, that doubt has now been pulverized into fine dust and that dust thrown to the four corners of the earth, never to be reunited hence. At a press conference on Thursday when asked whether Trump would peacefully step down if he lost the…

On Wednesday afternoon, in wake of the news that no police officers would be held responsible for the murder of Breonna Taylor, Hulu tweeted the following message: “Breonna Taylor’s life was changing. Then the police came to her door. #NYTPresents: The Killing of Breonna Taylor traces the missteps of the deadly raid.…

Breonna Taylor’s name and likeness have been immortalized on protest signs, magazine covers, Instagram posts, cringeworthy memes, and even t-shirts worn during the Emmys. There is a law named after her in Kentucky, banning the very same “no-knock warrants” that led to Louisville police officers shooting Taylor to…

As Nicki Minaj once said, “Gotta keep an eye out for Selener.” Especially if your name is Demi Lovato, and you’re dating a soap opera actor named Max Ehrich.