Abortion might as well be illegal in this country given the intensely restrictive laws and regulations placed on the procedure depending on the state. From ridiculous waiting periods enforced for women, to mandatory counseling, and laws that dictate the exact size of clinic hallways, anti-abortion advocates can make…

There were never very many women in my family.

While defending his racist border wall to reporters on Friday, Donald Trump had an inadvertently relatable moment, mixing up Republican white man Kevin McCarthy with other Republican white man Steve Scalise.

In the months since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and activists with the millennial-driven Sunrise Movement began to push for the Green New Deal, an ambitious and holistic set of political programs to head off some of the more cataclysmic impacts of global climate change, the idea has gained enormous momentum. Bolstered in…

The Bachelor franchise has had its fair share of controversy. Contestants have been accused of sexual misconduct, reported as missing persons, and been caught fleeing the scene of fatal car crashes. Producers have sued the show over sexual harassment allegations, and almost none of the winning relationships last.

Imagine a party where everyone has to arrive and leave at the same time, where some guests are only allowed to talk to two or three other people all night, and there’s a mystery price (anywhere from $20 to $80) that every guest pays at the end. You just invented a group dinner at a restaurant!

In a time when promises of “escape” are increasingly appealing, reality TV continues to provide a quasi-effective pathway, even as it bleeds unpleasantly into the thing we’re running from. In top-tier shows like Vanderpump Rules, we are not asked to examine reality as it stands, nor are we propelled into an imaginary…

Conservative college men at a handful of campuses across the country are calling for a ban on pornography. The campaign, launched by students at Notre Dame in October, has since spread to Harvard University, Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania, reports Inside Higher Ed.

Britney Spears is putting her new Vegas residency, “Domination,” on hold and going on an “indefinite work hiatus” to care for her father.

One more and it would have been 69. Nice.

Midtown Manhattan is facing a crisis. It’s not the advent of Amazon just across the river, in Queens, nor is it the state of the subways. No—it’s that the salad places are dangerously overcrowded with New Year’s resolvers.

Tidying Up With Marie Kondo was released on January 1, in a calculated attempt to activate the great American tradition of overhauling one’s life when the new year hits. It is mesmerizing in its sameness, much like The Great British Bakeoff or Queer Eye soothes the brain. Marie Kondo, Japanese tidying expert, and her…

A patient in a vegetative state at a nursing facility in Arizona gave birth on December 29, CBS News reports. Phoenix police are currently investigating the incident as a possible sexual abuse case.

In the Los Angeles movie theater where I saw Mary Queen of Scots, the woman sitting next to me gasped every time John Knox, played by David Tennant, called Mary a whore. Which is to say, there were times during the film where I had to check and see that she wasn’t hyperventilating because Tennant-as-Knox popped up…