Janelle Monáe has signed on to Julie Taymor’s Gloria Steinem biopic as Dorothy Pitman Hughes, the activist who co-founded Ms. magazine with Steinem in 1972.

Crazy Rich Asians star Constance Wu is in talks for a new rom-com about “a charmingly chaotic woman who has to get her life together when she becomes pregnant with two babies from two different men,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.

On Monday, the law firm Ropes & Gray released its 252-page report into the institutional failures that enabled Larry Nassar’s decades-long abuse of women and girls in his role of USA Gymnastics physician. The investigation, which was commissioned by the board of the USOC in February 2018—more than a year after the…

A Star Is Born has been celebrated (or at least discussed) across the universe (or at least the internet), but what if instead of Bradley Cooper wanting to take another look at Lady Gaga, it had been Will Smith wanting to take another look at Jennifer Lopez? Would that have even made sense? It could have happened.

It seems like it was forever ago when Netflix swooped in out of nowhere and dropped a piece of mysterious teaser art announcing its upcoming Carmen Sandiego reboot. Since then, there hasn’t been all that much revealed about the new series, but today, the studio announced a new release date and dropped a handful of…

How long has it been since you’ve wondered about the welfare of Julia Roberts’ holes? Was it eight years ago, when she—they—starred in Eat Pray Love? Or was it more recently? Maybe you’d forgotten all about America’s sweethole until just now. Luckily, an upstate New York newspaper has an update:

Thank you for a fresh Monday migraine, Time Magazine:

It’s the holidays, which means news outlets are Debbie Downer-ing us with annoyingly true alerts that ultimately serve to piss on our seasonal cheer. The latest offender is PEOPLE, which reminds us that “CDC Warns People to ‘Say No’ to Raw Cookie Dough While Baking for the Holidays.” Insert sad trombone sound with a…

On Monday afternoon, we learned that there might be a hidden clue embedded in the song “Pete Davidson,” Ariana Grande’s song about her ex-fiancé, Pete Davidson.

Netflix released a teaser trailer for Season 3 of Stranger Things on Sunday, The Los Angeles Times reports, revealing the names of the episodes but like, not much else.

The Washington Post’s fact-checker column, ranks statements by politicians on a scale of one to four “Pinocchios” and then those politicians keep lying about the same stuff.

On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to take up two lower court rulings that blocked states from cutting off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood—affirming the right of Medicaid recipients to use the organization’s healthcare services while sidestepping what would likely have been the first major case involving…

Everybody poops. I don’t care how rarely you hydrate. You poop. It is a fundamental aspect of human biology. And since the aliens we’ve seen in the Arrowverse seem to consume matter, we can assume they poop too. In fact, the only people on Earth who do not appear to poop are the CW set designers responsible for the…

Voter enthusiasm for any candidate means little if the vote is suppressed, an occurrence that disproportionately affects black voters. And in the aftermath of uncounted votes and purged voter rolls marring the midterm elections cycle, domestic workers and caregivers are at the frontlines in the fight to make sure…

Jacob Anderson, the former president of Baylor University’s Phi Delta Theta fraternity accused of raping a woman at an off-campus party in 2015, will not serve any prison time. Nor will he be required to register as a sex offender. Instead, he will pay a $400 fine and receive counseling, the Waco Tribune reports, as…

Women often pay the price for men’s transgressions—or at least, that’s the conclusion Steve McQueen comes to in his raw, tense, and spectacularly acted action thriller Widows. The film is set in the aftermath of a deadly Chicago robbery that claims the lives of four men who leave behind grieving wives and unpaid debt.…

An investigation by the Forth Worth Star-Telegram has uncovered more than 400 allegations of sexual misconduct at nearly 1,000 churches and organizations affiliated with the independent fundamental Baptist movement across 40 states and Canada, in which 168 church leaders have been “accused or convicted of committing…

Today in unfair and unjust labor practices in the media industry, we look towards NPR, where temporary workers are hired to do the same work as other producers and editors, but regularly have to worry about their assignments ending for no reason, or worse, for a bad reason, like the fact they took a vacation.