How could an assembly of wealthy dirtbags like the Trump administration understand the consequences of the government shutdown for federal employees? Perhaps this will finally drive the reality home for Ivanka Trump, at least, as former head of a middle-of-the-road women’s lifestyle brand: The shutdown is interfering…

A new study out of the UK by the Royal Society for Public Health has found that fully half of parents with young children are being exposed to anti-vax misinformation on social media. Great! That’s great.

When the White House affirmed November as National Adoption Month, it released a largely anodyne presidential proclamation. “Adoption is a blessing for all involved,” the proclamation read, adding that adoption “affirms the inherent value of human life and signals that every child—born and unborn—is wanted and loved.”

While Ariana Grande put out a retail-therapy empowerment single in the wake of her very public breakup with Pete Davidson, the Saturday Night Live actor, too, is working out some stuff through his craft: cracking even more jokes about his dick.

Jared Kushner has now taken it upon his narrow shoulders to end the government shutdown, which based on his record of getting things done certainly bodes well!

Yesterday The Atlantic published a story tracing allegations against director Bryan Singer that have been a widely known “open secret” in the industry for years. Several men detail allegations of being sexually assaulted by Singer as minors, one of whom talks about being assaulted on set during the production of…

Last week Jayme Closs—the 13-year-old Barron, Wisconsin teen who went missing for 88 days after her being abducted by Jake Patterson, the same man who murdered her parents Jim and Denise, returned home. According to the Washington Post, Closs will receive the $25,000 in reward money pledged by Hormel Foods for any…

I have found few things as enjoyable as the Riverdale musical episode, and though the particular plotline escapes me (Murder syrup? Jingly Jangly? Fizzy gargoyles?) I never quite got “Do Me a Favor” out of my head. So it was with great pleasure that I learned The CW included a Riverdale a musical spin-off series in…

Though I highly recommend taking any ex-Team Trump publicity tour with an Omarosa-sized grain of salt, former Trump aide Cliff Sims released a tasty excerpt of his new memoir, Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House, in Vanity Fair on Wednesday evening.

We have a lot of questions about Facebook’s CEO, some of which we’ve posed on this very website. But a new interview with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has introduced one mystery we absolutely must unravel: Did Mark Zuckerberg shoot a goat to death with lasers?

Donald Trump was all prepared to give his Very Special Big Boy Wants Big Wall and Big Claps State of the Union address in the House chamber on January 29. But thanks to Nancy Pelosi, he’ll either have to cancel the speech or find a new venue. Perhaps the third circle of hell is available? Or an Olive Garden?

It feels like it’s been a small lifetime since Alec Baldwin had a showdown with another man over an East Village village parking spot, but, hey, that happened the equivalent of only two-and-a-half government shutdowns ago. Wild.

The tiniest shred of good news feels like sunlight bursting through the sky after a thousand-day-long winter.

Valentine’s Day is a social construct that exists to remind people of either their crushing loneliness or that their relationship is past its expiration date, ideally while letting the chalky sweetness of a conversation heart melt on their tongue, mingled with tears. This year, for the first time in 153 years, that…

In November, while participating in a roundtable discussion with Emma Roberts, Ellen Pompeo, and Gabrielle Union, Gina Rodriguez clumsily addressed the racial inequalities within the gender pay gap and applied them where it does not translate: her rarified world in Hollywood. “I get so petrified in this space talking…

Plastic surgeons have found clients are bringing in photos of their own faces as inspiration for their cosmetic work, according to a deep dive into the phenomenon by the Guardian, published Wednesday. The relationship between selfie culture and plastic surgery and the rise of “Snapchat dysmorphia” has been previously…