Social media is great for connecting people, sharing news and information, and giving your grandmother the opportunity to air her political opinions unfettered. Unfortunately, its anonymity and widespread reach makes it an easy way for people to spread hate, and since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, social media…

The month of January is all about taking risks, and this January, I want to embody the same level of composure and winking sense of “Y’all see this?” that Frank Ocean brought to Virgil Abloh’s menswear fashion show for Louis Vuitton on Thursday.

When people are confronted with the breadth of the allegations against R. Kelly, the next question is almost always: Why have people ignored these stories for so long? And while there are many theories as to why Kelly still has a career as an artist, the biggest reason as to why he hasn’t faced consequences is because…

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is set to deport a double-amputee Honduran man without his prosthetic arm on Friday, and unless lawmakers intervene, his lawyers say, the U.S. government is sending the man back to a life-threatening situation.

When young activist and writer Noor Tagouri recently picked up the new issue of Vogue in which she is featured, she was “devastated” to find that the magazine confused her with a totally different person.

Ariana Grande’s inexplicable high ponytail leaves her in unrelenting scalp pain. In the first episode of her Dangerous Woman diaries, she revealed having “this vision of me on stage, and one day I’ll just turn, and from the root, [my hair] will just give up.” I’m no hair loss expert, but I’m going to go ahead and say,…

Much of the recent debate surrounding famous comedian and workplace harasser Louis CK has focused on his return to performing jokes in front of crowds. Should people pay to see? Should venues take their money?

A Wisconsin town is in shock over the abduction of 13-year-old Jayme Closs and the murder of her parents, who were targeted by stranger Jack Patterson, a man who had been planning the crime since watching the teen board a school bus last fall.

The Masked Singer is barely organized chaos. There is not much more to say than the series’ third episode, which was guest-judged by a particularly caustic Joel McHale, but there is much to see (Nick Cannon’s turban! Jenny McCarthy’s Nomi Malone hands! Nicole Scherzinger’s every move!). Highlights in this week’s…

For a medievalist like myself, it doesn’t get much better than Deborah Harkness’s A Discovery of Witches. Both the internationally bestselling trilogy and the newly adapted TV show have many of the conventions of a kickass fantasy story. There’s a 1,500-year-old vampire, a powerful witch who can literally make it…

In an interview with the New York Times, director Alfonso Cuarón remembers offering the lead role in his award-winning film Roma to Yalitza Aparicio. According to his memory, she said yes in part because she just happened to have some time between applying for teaching jobs. “Well, I think I can do it... I have…

As conservative lawmakers across the country work to restrict abortion access with increasingly creative and devastating regulations, a national network of abortion rights advocates is fighting to radically expand the pool of available providers in the United States one lawsuit at a time.

You’re already on the internet to the extent that it brought you to this blog—what’s one more dog?

In the wake of Lifetime’s Surviving R. Kelly docuseries, the public call for institutions that have supported R. Kelly in the past to take action has grown louder and louder.

After conducting an internal investigation in December into the numerous sexual assault allegations directed at Les Moonves, CBS determined the disgraced CEO was not eligible for a $120 million settlement as previously reported. Now he’s planning on fighting for that money.

Jennifer Garner, fresh off a Netflix binge of Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, did what so many viewers do after discovering the KonMari method—she began cleaning out her junk drawer. And because she’s a famous person, she did so on Instagram, tossing out mostly useless crap and posting the caption, “@mariekondo I’m all…

Former Michigan governor John Engler has resigned as Michigan State University’s president after outrage over his comments suggesting that women sexually abused by former MSU and Olympic team doctor Larry Nassar are “still enjoying” being in the spotlight.