In Kerala, a state on the southwestern coast of India, women are entering the previously male-dominated world of harvesting coconuts.

I like to think of myself as an adventurous person—last month I took a multi-sensory 5-hour bus from the Catskills to Manhattan, and the other day I ate a Lunchable. But I am not nearly as, uh, intrepid? as this Frenchman hellbent on bobbing his way to an early grave in a high-tech barrel, across the Atlantic Ocean,…

Fellas, why are you like this?

Thailand is one step closer to becoming the first country in Asia to recognize same-sex civil partnerships.

It’s too much work to leave the house on New Year’s Eve, and American corporations have realized that, and now those of us who’ve long enjoyed sitting around our houses in tattered sleepwear on the 31st are going to be besieged by marketing.

And now, a short tribute to the now-unemployed Trump staffers, all of whom have either been fired or resigned from the Trump administration this year. May they celebrate their renewed freedom and honor their second chance at life.

Two young children have died in recent weeks while in the care of Customs and Border Patrol, yet Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who doesn’t seem to know how her agency actually operates, continues to pin the blame for these deaths on the parents and family members who come to the U.S.…

More news is slowly trickling out about the secret nuptials exchanged by Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth, including that they got hitched in the first place and that it happened on December 23 at Miley’s home in Nashville, relocated after the Malibu fires destroyed the couple’s home on the West Coast. Weddings schmeddin…

In an unequivocally unhinged video posted to Twitter on Monday, Kevin Spacey claimed—in the voice of Frank Underwood, while wearing a Santa apron—that he was “certainly not going to pay the price for the things I didn’t do.” Unfortunately for Spacey, it appears there may be another video out there showing things he…

Penny Marshall and I were the bridesmaids in Carrie Fisher’s wedding to Paul Simon. This was 1983 and there was a select group of friends invited to go along on their honeymoon up the Nile. We were watched over by a silent Egyptian crew who cooked for us, steered the boat, cleaned the cabins, and catered to our whims.…

It’s a dreary period after the holidays when everyone must trudge back to work and figure out how to sell their crappy gifts on eBay. But, at least, there is some hope in the New Year. Will you finally take advantage of that gym membership?Dip your toe into online dating? Or will you realize that you’re actually just…

Though Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill’s lost her re-election bid during November’s mid-terms, it that hasn’t stopped the Missouri politician from offering unsolicited advice to those who did win, including recently elected House representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Over 3,000 patients at a New Jersey surgical center may have been exposed to bloodborne pathogens after investigators found the facility wasn’t properly following sterilization guidelines or cleaning medical instruments correctly.

Jemele Hill, an award-winning journalist who also has the honor of inspiring a petulant tweet from Donald Trump, has no regrets about her criticisms of the president.

In May 2018, Georgia state senator Michael Williams tried and failed to draw attention to his doomed gubernatorial campaign in a “deportation bus,” which was a school bus rigged to look like a prison transport vehicle and warned of “murderers, rapists, kidnappers, child molesters, and other dangerous criminals on…

After Roseanne Barr was killed off her own sitcom for some racist Twitter vitriol that she blames on Ambien and the makers of Ambien blame on racism, she began threatening to take her talents to Israel. Now, it seems as if she’s officially ready to take her shitty, nonsensical opinions to Israel’s parliament.

There are three types of movies about men going out into nature. In the first, one rugged man, usually wearing a bear, heads into the woods never to return. In the second, two or more men go into the woods and come back forever changed by an unspeakable horror. In the third, two or more men head for a lush, green…