Republican governors in states like Texas, Iowa, Alabama, and Ohio have been using the pandemic to make it impossible for people to get abortions, classifying abortions as “non-essential” medical procedures that should be suspended as part of social distancing measures. Now, anti-abortion officials may be able to use…

As countries continue to enact shelter-in-place safety initiatives amid the pandemic, a surge in domestic violence cases globally illustrates that for many women and girls, home is the least safe place they can be.

John Prine, one of country folk music’s most revered singer-songwriters, has died. Prine’s family announced a few weeks ago that the 73-year-old had contracted covid-19 and was hospitalized. On Tuesday, the New York Times reports, he died at a Nashville hospital of complications stemming from the virus.

I have almost forgotten about all the bit players in the White House, and I entirely forgot about Stephanie Grisham, who replaced Sarah Huckabee Sanders as the White House Press Secretary in June. It makes sense that Grisham completely slipped my mind, since she didn’t give a single press briefing the entire time she…

Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks have recovered from their bout of covid-19, but considering the virus’s global death count, one can imagine even a mild case would force a person to reckon with their own mortality. Even before that, though, Wilson battled breast cancer, which led to a morbid, but understandable conversation…

Growing up in Louisiana, I’ll never forget footage from Hurricane Katrina of thousands packed into untenable living conditions in the wake of the storm, amid official messages of “We’ll get through this,” that were light on plans for how. There was little acknowledgment that black populations were the hardest hit.…

We at Notable Woman’s Magazine remain committed to documenting culture in the time of coronavirus, with this, the first in a regular series of pandemic trend essays.

I know, I know, you’re probably thinking, “No shit, Ashley” or “We realized this five years ago, dummy” or, as one friend put it, “I’m sorry Princess Diaries 2 wasn’t enough?” But yes, it’s true: Chris Pine was not my preferred Chris of the White Chris quartet, despite Jezebel’s long-held definitive position on the…

This morning, I woke up, and immediately went, holy fuck! My mind had taken me at some point during the night to a terrifying place, the stuff of nightmares—a place, likely in hell, where I had a sex dream featuring a smiling Eric Trump.

Ivanka Trump has kept busy during this extended period of social distancing. She’s been pretending to be a Normal Mom (nanny not included), teaching her children how to wash their hands with very expensive soap, stanning her father, sharing a lot of saccharine covid-19 stories, and... doing pull-ups?

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry—ever heard of ‘em? After recently moving to Los Angeles, so that Markle can finally wear yoga pants again and maybe relaunch her lifestyle website, the ex-royals have unveiled the next chapter in their lives: A charity. That’s great! Unfortunately, it’s called Archewell, which sounds…

From what I can glean in the three-minute trailer for the Netflix action-thriller Extraction, Chris Hemsworth is mercenary Tyler Rake, an Australian Batman-voiced bad boy sent to Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord’s son. There’s a lot of violence, a lot of gunshots and missiles fired, and one brief moment of…

Across Wisconsin, voters are lining up to cast their ballots. They’re snaking around blocks and through parking lots, prepared to wait hours to cast their vote in the Democratic primary. While many are wearing masks, the image of hundreds gathered in public to vote in-person as covid-19 rages on is a tragedy in the…