Donald Trump’s first year as president was marked by many unnecessary bans applauded mostly by bigots, namely travel bans and his ban on transgender service members. Almost immediately, federal courts began working to block both bans, fights that will surely continue well into the future.

Of all the places one could choose to make their forever home, Lucy the Elephant, who resides in Margate City, New Jersey, is not a bad pick. I’ve packed my bags and thrown everything I own into four plastic Tupperware bins. They are lined up in a row in the hallway, waiting for my movers. Toot toot. I’m coming to New…

With the news that the coronavirus is spreading, it’s only a matter of time before people start to think—wait, do I have the coronavirus? At this point it’s still extremely rare, and your cough is far more likely to be a cold or flu. Still, here’s what you should do.

Last May, former Baltimore mayor Catherine Pugh resigned from her position after news broke that she arranged for local nonprofits to buy a ridiculous number of her self-published Healthy Holly: Exercising is Fun children’s books, in order to conceal hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks. (According to the…

Though there are rare exceptions children are generally not allowed to shape media in their own image. Instead, entertainment intended for teens has always been based on approximations of the clothing, music, and lifestyles of stylish youths as filtered through the imaginations of the adults in control of the…

With the abysmal state of healthcare in this country, it shouldn’t be surprising that tech companies—specifically those in the app space—have swooped in left and right to solve the ills that the federal government can’t or won’t. Want to monitor your blood pressure? There’s an app for that. Mental health got you down? …

As a teen who juggles 3:30 a.m. call times on film sets with a high school workload, Anna Cathcart knows a few things about maintaining friendships in the thick of fame: “I’m all over the place all the time,” she says. “I’ll tell my friends, ‘If I don’t text you all the time, or if we don’t have time to FaceTime, it’s…

Horniness is not new, though the winds that blow across the internet would indicate that we are in a renaissance of sorts. Women’s desire is not new either, despite a recent trend piece in Vanity Fair that attempts to excavate the reasons why. It is a constant and is in fact a scientific imperative for the continued…

If you identify as a woman and have ever entered a public ladies’ room, chances are, at some point you have bonded with a stranger and made a fast friend. Perhaps the bond was due to an overly enthusiastic outfit compliment—or a borrowed tampon. This fast friend may be temporary and you may never see her again. But,…

There’s a story I think about a lot, told by Douglas Rushkoff, one of the only good futurists. I encourage you to read it in its entirety, but essentially: Rushkoff was once invited to give a fantastically well-compensated talk about the “future of technology” that was in fact a five-person seminar for hedge fund…

At 7:04 a.m. ET today, I got the same text message every other Swiftie got: Did you see it? “It” is the video for “The Man.”

Alleged abuser Johnny Depp is in the midst of two concurrent lawsuits: one against ex-wife Amber Heard in Fairfax County, Virginia, filed after she published a 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post about how abusive men stay protected without mentioning Depp by name, and another in the UK against News Group Newspapers,…

One good thing about the internet is that is constantly produces stark visual illustrations of the aphorism that money will never buy happiness. Wealthy people will embarrass themselves in pursuit of further riches, always, and on Instagram they will do it rather publicly. Yesterday, that symbol of hubris and greed…

Netflix’s dating show Love Is Blind appears at first to raise the question: “Is love blind?” It is right there in the show’s title. It is apparent in the construct of sending participants on dates in neighboring “pods” which allow them to interact only by voice. It is explicitly and repeatedly underscored by the…

If you’re getting a little bit anxious about the coronavirus coming for all the beards, don’t worry, our government’s got this under control. That’s because Donald Trump has delegated the task of dealing with a rapidly evolving global crisis to a guy who really knows a thing or two about how to contain a virus: Mike…

A Florida woman has been arrested for locking her boyfriend inside a suitcase and leaving him there until he died.