It’s flu and cold season, and that means some of you will be showing up to work coughing and sneezing. If your workplace doesn’t give you adequate paid sick days, that is awful and we feel for you. If it does, then you owe it to all of us to take them—especially the people who can’t take sick days. That’s why your…

When a group of historians were looking at the teeth of medieval skeletons for remnants of plant microremains, they discovered a bit of lapis luzuli wedged between the teeth of a 45 to 60-year-old woman who was buried at a monastery circa A.D. 997 to 1162. And that’s weird, considering how expensive lapis luzuli was…

This may be hard to imagine in these dick-laden times, but not very long ago it was rare to even hear someone say the word “penis” on television, much less get an eyeful of one. To quote Lindsay Lohan: Oh, the story changes.

When 9-year-old “aspiring rapper” Lil Tay was thrust into our lives last spring, it immediately raised red flags. Sure, the image of a kid trying to flex like a Soundcloud rapper and rage about the millions they have in the bank may have been funny at first glance, but it was unclear how much Tay had consented to…

Melissa McCarthy is InStyle’s February cover star and the interview is delightful—she discussed motherhood, her marriage, her actor friends, her love of Scotch and going to bed at 8:30 pm—and when the conversation intensified, it’s her own doing. A question about sensitivity to negative reviews became a dissection of…

My real-life best friends Issa Rae (Insecure), Marsai Martin (Black-ish), and Regina Hall, who is funny and criminally underrated in everything, are starring in a body-swap comedy titled Little that’s heavy on shade.

Congrats to the editorial staff of Refinery29, the first women’s media company to independently unionize! They join a growing number of websites, including Slate, Vice, Vox Media, and our very own Gizmodo Media Group, in the Writer’s Guild of America, East.

At the end of 2018, Jezebel sent Gizmodo Media Group Executive Managing Editor Alex Dickinson to Australia in order to expand our international coverage. He will be writing about Australia’s role in the world, politics, and feminism, and also working on partnerships and events.

Many men need help to break free of traditional ideas about masculinity, according to me, a person who has interacted extensively with men throughout her lifetime, as well as to the American Psychological Association, who recently issued guidelines for how psychologists should treat boys and men. And predictably, men…

The problem with winter is that the narrative is all wrong. At this very site, Katie McDonough recently wrote that “Bad Winter” has now begun, since the holidays are over but it’s still cold. But she and the culture at large are missing out on the best of this season due to a simple misinterpretation.

The New York Police Department announced on Tuesday that it was closing three investigations into sexual assault allegation brought against chef-magnate Mario Batali, and that no charges would be brought against him

Ted Cruz grew out a beard and the world recoiled in disgust. Now, Cruz claims that his “good friend” (definitely real) who is conveniently abroad knows a rabbi (definitely real) who said that he likes Cruz’s beard:

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the man who boldly stood up for Amazon, is apparently trying to embrace some progressive policies in the New Year. A day after he announced that the city would provide healthcare for all residents, including undocumented immigrants, the mayor has introduced a plan to offer two weeks…

Welcome to Midweek Madness, where new girl on the scene Joan Summers will be staring into the void, and listening to it explain the intimate details of Meghan Trainor’s wedding reception to Spy Kid Daryl Sabara. She wore sneakers and leggings because she’s a regular and relatable human person! The Spy Kid-turned-Man…

Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King have started a video series titled “The OG Chronicles.” According to OprahMag.com, they will answer readers questions and give them advice on a number of topics. The first one is on dating, and while it is my personal belief that almost no one gives good advice, if I were to seek guidance…

Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club, which debuted Tuesday on MTV, is many things, and only some of them are intended. Through the uncanny-valley haze of contrived setups and editing so hyper as to be Russ Meyers levels of disorienting, though, sometimes something that’s so awkward it must be true emerges.

Greg Lansky is gesturing at the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd while sitting behind a red velvet rope on the rooftop of the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. “I want to take porn out of the shadows,” he says with his French accent.

The average American ate 37 pounds of American-made cheese in 2017, yet this country somehow still has a surplus of the fine, orange, plasticky stuff (not to mention cheddar).