Cardi B is on Elle’s September cover and, unsurprisingly, she does not disappoint. It’s so refreshing to hear from a celebrity who categorically avoids giving the same lackluster responses in order to avoid controversy—in fact, she leans into it, acknowledging her mistakes and learning from them. My favorite part of…

Nearly two years ago Kenya Barris left his contract at ABC to work on projects for Netflix, explaining that one of the reasons for his departure was that the network had actively censored an episode of Black-ish for its anti-Trump commentary, keeping it from being aired entirely. In a 2018 profile for The Hollywood…

No doubt there are many enlightening anecdotes in Meghan Markle’s and Prince Harry’s new biography, Finding Freedom, but this is a good one: At what point did Harry know that Meghan was “the one”? Was it the first time he saw her dazzling smile? No. Was it when she immediately won over his famously difficult family?…

Dolly’s Tennessee Mountain Home is a small, rough-hewn cabin tucked away in the middle of Dollywood, Dolly Parton’s eponymous theme park at the edge of Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains. Its very name conveys the all-important, utterly foundational place of Parton’s childhood home in her enduring public persona, the…

After five months of coronavirus lockdown, many of us get a little snappy when we see someone going about their business sans mask. But some sexual assault survivors say that wearing a mask triggers PTSD, and that everyone’s condescending attitudes aren’t helping.

Last year, McDonald’s fired CEO Steve Easterbrook for violating company policy against sexting with an employee, furnishing him with tens of millions in exit compensation, as is custom these days. But a new report from the New York Times reveals that McDonald’s is suing Easterbrook for his involvement in not one, but t…

Cardi B’s “WAP” was birthed into the world on Friday, and it only took a few hours before it became controversial. Not because of its delightfully filthy lyrics (It’s goin’ in dry and it’s comin’ out soggy, I ride on that thing like the cops is behind me), but because Kylie Jenner got more face time in the video than N…

Hey, you know what we need right now? Donald Trump and a whole host of Republicans know just the thing to lift our flagging spirits and keep our minds off of the death and destruction they have wrought. Their priorities are, as always, exactly where they should be.

Ben Shapiro, a right-wing media personality who constantly sounds congested, is outraged by the new Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion song, “WAP.”

One of the critical elements in any non-medicinal healing work is stripping away the ego, which is what prevents most people from delving into the memories and emotions they are trained to keep locked tight in order to conform to civil society. The manner in which one strips the ego varies based on the background of…

Jurnee Smollett is starring in quite a timely upcoming project on HBO—the much-anticipated Lovecraft Country. The series, which is a period piece, is especially relevant since we’re following its protagonists on the “quest to disrupt white supremacy,” which is both intriguing and frustrating. We’re still fighting this…

The mail is a little slow these days, another side effect of the covid-19 pandemic, as many Americans enter the fifth month of lockdown. Mail carriers—especially the underfunded United States Postal Service—have dealt with an influx of package deliveries and few additional resources and while businesses deal with a…

On Sunday evening, Alex Morse, the 31-year-old openly gay mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts, issued what can loosely be termed an apology after news emerged that the College Democrats of Massachusetts had accused him of “inappropriate sexual relations with college students.” And his apology, if it can be called that,…

On July 30, a sizable amount of documents were unsealed from a defamation suit between Ghislaine Maxwell and Virginia Giuffre, a woman who was allegedly trafficked by Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein when she was a teen girl, and who wrote a memoir about her time with the pair. The documents, which were unsealed by Judge…