Former Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt’s short, 16-month reign was marked by a truly astounding amount of grift as well as a callous disregard for pesky little problems like climate change, but given how many top Trump administration officials we lost in 2018, it’s easy to forget just how much he…

Emma Stone was apparently nervous about doing a fingering scene with Olivia Colman on the set of The Favourite. So what did Colman do? Well, she went and got a “big, wet sponge” from the makeup department and nestled it right up against her crotch. Problem solved!

In 2018, teachers in the United States quit their jobs at a record rate, with an average of 83 out of 10,000 teachers and other public education employees quitting per month.

Today, I met a bear. Not in the wild, where I’d be reluctant to meet a bear, but on the Internet, where tiny, perfect bears yawn at you gently without any intention of biting off your leg.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her husband Martin Ginsburg, who died in 2010, were known to have a loving and egalitarian marriage, one in which Martin—or Marty as he was known—was, in her words, her “best friend and biggest booster.” It’s a tender relationship that’s captured in On the Basis of Sex,…

It seems pointless to estimate the number of times I’ve wondered if I was speaking up enough. It isn’t enough, apparently, to struggle with speaking up for yourself and establishing and enforcing boundaries. Being a woman in a world where men routinely set the rules of engagement means constantly second-guessing my…

We are now on Day 7 of a government shutdown that, from the looks of things/Donald Trump’s ever-unhinged morning tweets, isn’t letting up anytime soon. For about 800,000 federal workers, that means no wages, which makes paying rent and bills in January fairly difficult. What says the government, re: this particular…

Is it just us, or is reboot nostalgia getting kind of suffocating these days? 2018 was a particularly fruitful year for reanimating long-dead characters and franchises, from straightforward sequels like Roseanne to compelling new spins on classic characters like Sabrina the Teenage Witch (The Chilling Adventures of…

It is not unusual for the parents of those killed by undocumented immigrants to become anti-immigration crusaders. They’re useful, sympathetic props by President Donald Trump—who calls them “Angel Families”—and others on the right to advance an agenda that paints the undocumented as ruthless monsters, shameless…

There are a number of ways that the Trump administration is undermining the rights of Americans, but one of the most important gets far less attention than it deserves: Donald Trump has stacked federal courts in his favor, a move that could embed his policies and positions into the DNA of American jurisprudence for…

The most dramatic face of climate change will be the catastrophes—the fires and floods. But there will also be the smaller, quieter moments of sadness. For instance, the fact that maybe you’ll have trouble getting your traditional New Year’s collard greens.

Here’s a nice little update: the botched “Ecce Homo” restoration, which quickly earned the new name “Monkey Christ” after going wildly viral worldwide, has actually brought new tourists and money into its small Spanish town.

On Thursday night, Iggy Azalea played a concert in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and in the middle of “Black Widow,” one of her backup dancers collapsed onstage. Just as Azalea hit the last line in the chorus, another woman knelt next to the fallen dancer and then it sounds like she said into her microphone, “Somebody bring …

I was on my way home from a camping trip on an unusually cool summer day when I learned that John McCain had died. I saw that George H.W. Bush had died, at age 94, while standing in my kitchen, whacking a pomegranate with a wooden spoon to shake the seeds loose. I had to wipe my hands clean to read the news on my…

Ever since the American Society for Reproductive Therapy dropped the “experimental” label for IVF, the fertility treatment has been widely accepted as being not without risks, but pretty safe. Clinics aggressively market the procedure to young women, and celebrities like Michelle Obama speak openly about their…

Forgive me if I’m already deeply suspicious of the Jungle Cruise film, another Disney movie based on a Disney ride that still somehow relies on racist stereotypes (and also a pretty shitty grasp of geography), even though it won’t be out until summer of 2020. But here’s another reason for skepticism: TMZ, citing…

Cyntoia Brown was 16 years old when, in 2004, she was convicted of murdering Johnny Mitchell Allen, a 43-year-old man who had solicited the teenager for sex. Brown, who had been in foster care since she was an infant, had run away from her adoptive family and was living with a boyfriend who she said forced her into…