Eleven months ago, 17 students and staff were murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Five months ago, students returned to the school, craving normalcy but with the knowledge that their lives had been violently altered and nothing would be the same. HBO’s documentary, Song of Parkland,…

I’m tired of brands trying to get a bigger slice of this pie—the pie being my vagina. On Tuesday, WWD reported that Combe—the parent company of Vagisil, which if you remember from the commercials, claims to stop vag-related itching and odors—bought a majority stake in Sustain Natural, which WWD describes as “a…

In an Instagram post on Tuesday, Chris Brown denied allegations that he raped a woman in his hotel room in Paris last week.

Few things get me out of bed nowadays, but one incentive is the possibility I’ll get to watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grill Donald Trump about the pee tape one day. So far, that’s been naught but a beautiful pipe dream, but it is possible it will soon be a reality, now that a handful of progressives have reportedly…

Despite Ja Rule’s insistence that he would NEVER SCAM another human being, let alone thousands, one restauranteur who fell victim to Fyre Festival says he owes her at least $100,000. Now might be a good time to pull up those receipts?

On the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, amid a landscape in which the fate of abortion rights becomes increasingly uncertain, a nearly decade-long effort to amend an archaic New York state law came one major step closer to fruition. The New York State Senate voted Tuesday to pass the Reproductive Health Act, amending…

It’s the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

The world has had enough of kitschy gender reveal concepts, especially after this dummy’s gender-reveal plan caused the 2017 Sawmill Fire in Southern Arizona, destroying 45,000 acres of land and resulting in over $8 million in damages, but surely there is room for one more:  The latest trend is a $140, family-sized…

The video of MAGA hat-wearing Covington Catholic High School students, who were in Washington DC for the March for Life, in a tense standoff with Black Israelites and a Native American contingent from the Indigenous People’s March, has become hotly debated national news.

Week 1: Amazon

The 1988 film Mystic Pizza was a success of nearly cultish degree. Perhaps because it was a breakout role for Julia Roberts. Or because it was here, for the first time, that we saw Matt Damon in a feature film. Or because of pizza. To be sure, the film was a magical combination and now, in what appears to be the End…

My first job in journalism, in 2013, was called something like “assistant lifestyle editor” and involved blogging six to eight times a day about topics ranging from the couches on Mad Men to a dolphin that got stuck in a heavily polluted waterway in New York City. I wanted to write about politics, and sometimes did,…

In 2015, Texas had one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the U.S., one that has since been slow to go down—but a new report from the Texas Observer shows that the challenges of becoming unexpectedly pregnant are even greater for those in the foster care system, where the state’s religious right has scared adults…

On Monday tech site Thurrot reported that Spotify has begun rolling out a block feature, one which allows users to block artists from their view of the platform. When a Spotify user blocks an artist, they’ll no longer see them in curated playlists like Discover Weekly or even charts, and they’ll have to actively…

There are not one, not two, but three different otters involved in the firing of Chiitan, an otter who formerly held the job of honorary tourism ambassador for the city of Susaki in southern Japan. To make matters even more confusing, two of the otters involved in this beef are named Chiitan, and two of them are not…

A mysterious sleeping illness breaks out in the fictional town of Santa Lora, California, in Karen Thompson Walker’s alternately terrifying and moving new novel, The Dreamers. It spreads slowly, barely detectable at first, until the situation becomes a catastrophe that starts looking like the end of days.