Between the two extremes of the recent mask debates—continuing to wear a mask after being fully vaccinated is good, because it signals that we care about other people; wearing a mask is bad, because public health experts have said it’s no longer necessary outdoors and we should follow science—lies a vast middle…

My opinions about Lori Loughlin begin and end at her crime hats, which were honestly a fun and flirty addition to our national celebrity lexicon. She’s out of prison now, which is good. Also... she’s a mom! As such, her daughters wished her happy Mother’s Day, which I am now making news, because it’s a Monday and I…

How many stories have you read lately about restaurant owners bemoaning the fact that they can’t find employees for their shitty, often part-time jobs that often come with no benefits? These restauranteurs, whose woe-is-me stories have been lifted up by Republican leaders eager to cast a modest level of government…

When we last checked in on NBC regarding the Golden Globes, whose parent organization the Hollywood Foreign Press Association came under fire earlier this year for a decades-long lack of Black members, the network was breaking its silence on an awards show it has broadcast for the past 25 years. “We are taking these…

HBO’s latest prestige crime procedural, Mare of Easttown, scratches the itch for gritty, well-produced drama, neatly filling the hole left by other offerings like True Detective but with a much-needed tweak. Instead of being forced yet again to plumb the depths of police work as a proxy for masculinity, viewers are…

Nostalgia is a trap of the mind; it’s easy to believe that things were better than they are in the present or than they ever have been or ever will be. But sometimes, the past really was better and a return is only an upgrade. This idea is the basis for most time travel movies and it is also behind Jennifer Lopez and…

AIDS activist Pedro Zamora spent the majority of his time on The Real World: San Francisco, which ran from June 30, 1994, to November 10, 1994, educating others. Whether he was giving a lecture in a classroom, casually discussing his health with his partner—the late Sean Sasser—over dinner, or in the throes of yet…

American dead women, your time to be on money has finally arrived! Not paper money, babes, that already has white men on it. The time has come for you to be the tail side of the U.S. quarter, which will still be headed by enslaver and founding father George Washington, though the ass-end of our quarter dollars will…

The Biden administration announced on Monday that healthcare providers can’t discriminate against trans patients, a move to roll-back Trump-era policies that claimed the opposite.

For years, Seth Rogen has been nonspecific when asked about his longtime friend and collaborator James Franco through multiple sexual harassment allegations leveled at the actor. In 2014, he made a big joke about Franco DMing a 17-year-old on Instagram. When asked about the five women who came forward with new…

It’s quaint that Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly actually play video games together, according to a new interview in People. Usually I have to force my husband to sit and watch because I am the gamer and he is easily impressed by his gamer wife. Not so for this progressive couple!

The National Rifle Association may be hurting financially, but that hasn’t stopped them from tapping into America’s obsession with firearms. On Sunday, Mother’s Day, the NRA posted a photo of pint-sized gun influencer Autumn Fry with her mother, who appeared to be holding an AR-15, a favorite among the nation’s most…

During the past few weeks, the words “Arizona” and “recount” and “2020 election results” have floated across all of my various screens, words that my brain has quite frankly refused to process both separately and together. It’s called self-care!

For almost my entire life, Giuliana Rancic has been standing on a red carpet or red carpet-adjacent platform in a sparkling gown with the E! logo behind her, asking celebrities inane questions about their clothes, jewelry, and dates. Last week she released her death grip over the field of red carpet coverage and…

Despite leaving the White House and more or less receding from public view, the Trump children are still costing American taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional security costs.

After Bill and Melissa Gates announced their divorce last week, I came across at least a handful of news stories waxing existential about why the philanthropic super-couple had split. Some even situated the Gateses amid the larger “gray divorce” trend that is apparently underway, which describes the increase in older…